Dylan Thomas: The Pubs: Mermaids and White Horses - Couverture souple

Towns, Jeff; Thomas, Wyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847716938 ISBN 13 : 9781847716934

Editeur : Y Lolfa, 2013

Synopsis

In this book Jeff Towns reveals how Dylan Tomas loved pubs for the people, not the pints. Follow Jeff as he explores the true nature of Dylan's love affair with pub life - a passion which was as much as about comradeship, human warmth and convivial company as it was about beer.

In collaboration with artist Wyn Thomas, who sets the scene with his original artworks, Jeff visits the pubs and bars in Wales, London and the USA that boast a special connection to Dylan, and encounters a fantastic cast of characters. The journey begins in Swansea with the Kardomah Gang, a bunch of lively local artists, writers and musicians, before heading across west Wales via Laugharne and New Quay; it blazes through London's bohemian Fitzrovia with Augustus John before ending in America with the Beat poets, Stravinsky and Charlie Chaplin.

In Dylan Thomas: The Pubs, Jeff Towns and Wyn Thomas have succeeded in delivering a book that not only finds a place on a heavily burdened bookshelf of works on Wales' favourite poet, but have created a volume accessible to the lay reader that will also delight those who have travelled this road before. - Steven Jones, Cymru Culture

A well-written and excellently illustrated volume. - Jeff Childs, Morgannwg - The Journal of Glamorgan History

Pubs were Dylan Thomas's natural habitat. They provided companionship, inspiration and beer, of which he was particularly fond. That's why fans of his semi-autobiographical short stories or the posthumously published radio talks, Quite Early One Morning, will delight in this volume...Such nostalgic and amusing anecdotes give the book all the warmth of a cosy pub and it's written, I would suggest, in a style which Thomas would have approved of. The book is enriched by Wyn Thomas's splendid images of the many pubs with an update of what they are like today. - Gwyn Griffiths, Morning Star

This book isn't an attempt to explore and explain Thomas' drinking but instead show the central part the pub played in his creative process. This is therefore a roadmap of Thomas' life through the drinking holes he frequented across Wales, London and the States, taking in the characters he encountered along the way. Crammed with personal anecdotes, this is and exhaustively-researched and lovingly-illustrated book that chronicles the talent and times of a man whose alcoholism eventually killed him aged just 39. - RedHanded Magazine

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jeff Towns opened Dylan s Bookstore in Swansea in 1970. He is regarded as a leading authority and dealer in books, letters, manuscripts and the ephemera of Dylan Thomas. Wyn Thomas is a former producer/director of arts and history documentaries for television.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Y Lolfa
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847716938
• ISBN 13: 9781847716934
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible