Description
Fine dust jacket. The Fine binding is green paper over boards, dark green cloth-backed with silver stamping on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Inside there are several lovely photos of Thomas and his family. The rear cover has the Book of the Month Club small indented square on the lower right-hand corner of the back cover. Jacket design by Holly McNeely
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
Few poets have excited such extremes of admiration and hostility as Dylan Thomas, the Welshman who was perhaps the greatest lyric poet of our century. Thomas persisted to the end in fostering an image of the poet as an intense and decadent individual. He lived in poverty despite his considerable income and shocked his public with his love affairs and drinking while demanding recognition as an artist. But whenever this difficult man read his works, he was accepted on his own terms-his audiences were enthralled.
Paul Ferris’s authoritative new biography is based on a wealth of previously unpublished material (including two poems) gathered by the author in more than two hundred inter- views and extensive research in Britain and America. In his beautifully written narrative Mr. Ferris gives us new insights into Thomas’s childhood and adolescence, his arrival on the London literary scene, his marriage to Caitlin Macnamara, his wartime career as a film writer, his visits to the United States, his death. Mr. Ferris’s work has been justly hailed in England as the definitive Thomas biography, a gold mine for scholars as well as for the general reader.
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
PAUL FERRIS is himself from Wales, He is the author of several works of nonfiction (including The House of Northcliffe) and novels, among them, The Cure. He is also a regular contributor to The Observer (London) and writes for television and radio. He now lives in London.
