Do Not Go Gentle (Quick Reads) - Softcover

Carradice, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783755237 ISBN 13: 9781783755233

Publisher: Accent Press Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

It's November 1953 and Dylan Thomas, Britain's finest poet, is dying in a hospital bed in New York. What brought him to this end is not clear. But he is a man tormented by fear – fear of failing as a writer, fear of a marriage doomed to end in disaster, even fear of death itself – all of which have led him to find comfort in alcohol, outrageous behaviour and the arms of other women. Now, as Dylan lies waiting for the end, he thinks back over his life, from his childhood in Swansea to his days as a wild young poet in London, from his tempestuous marriage to Caitlin MacNamara to his final weeks in New York. Dylan Thomas may not have wanted to die but he had little desire to live. An interesting and attractive figure, who was doomed. Do Not Go Gentle paints a picture of a man who has clearly reached the end of his tether.

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About the Author

Phil Carradice is a novelist, poet and historian. Born in Pembroke Dock, he was educated at Cardiff University and Cardiff College of Education. He taught for thirty years, becoming Head of a large special school in South Wales before becoming a full-time writer. He has written over forty books, the most recent being "The Black Chair" (novel), "The Wildwest Show (novel) and "A Pembrokeshire Childhood" (autobiography). For Accent he recently wrote "Snapshots of Welsh History - Without the Boring Bits." Phil also broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and presents the BBC Wales radio programme "The Past Master." He writes a weekly blog for BBC Wales History and regularly appears on television programmes like "The One Show." A Fellow of the Welsh Academi, he is renowned as one of the country's leading teachers of creative writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Accent Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783755237
• ISBN 13: 9781783755233
• Binding: Paperback