Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
Dannie Abse author Julia Bell editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Parthian Books
Published:1st Nov '26
£11.00
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Introduced by Julia Bell.
Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the thirties, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sung-after classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backcloth of the times - unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish Civil War.
'Mr Abse writes beautifully and tenderly of the things he has seen and felt.' – The Times
‘This book is a modern classic which speaks keenly to our present moment, both in its autofictional style which gives the book a recognisably modern point of view, and in the background hum of anxiety about tyranny and mortality as it impinges on the everyday. They say the past is a foreign country, but in Abse’s 1930s, the past is surprisingly familiar territory, bittersweet, fragile, tenderly alive.’ – Julia Bell
ISBN: 9781917140461
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240 pages