Adventures in the Skin Trade

Dylan Thomas; Andrew Sinclair [Adapter]

ISBN 10: 0811203832 / ISBN 13: 9780811203838

Edité par New Directions, 1968

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FIRST EDITION of this play adaptation. NY: New Directions, 1968. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with sunned spine.

N° de réf. du vendeur 131128514

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Adventures in the Skin Trade
• Éditeur: New Directions
• Date de parution: 1968
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0811203832
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780811203838
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

As a rule, a good novel does not always make a good play--especially a novel as unconventional as this one by Dylan Thomas. But Andrew Sinclair's brilliant adaptation of Adventures in the Skin Trade is the exception. This is the story of young Samuel Bennet--a not entirely innocent provincial--who leaves his Welsh home to let adventure find him in London. Sam is soon deeply involved--all the while with his finger stuck fast in an ale bottle--with a fantastic assortment of odd characters whom only Dylan Thomas could have conceived. What The Times Literary Supplement said about Adventures in the Skin Trade as a novel still applies to the play: "There is no doubt of Thomas's genius as a comic writer ... there are memorable images and phrases on every page." One reason is Andrew Sinclair's exceptionally skillful adaptation.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Here we are nibbling away all day and night, Mrs Dacey. Nibble nibble. No sense, no order, no nothing, were all mad and nasty. Samuel Bennett leaves his home in South Wales to pursue a career in London. Setting out with an attitude of reckless, nihilistic purpose, he encounters a nightmarish city with an assortment of bizarre characters and an embarrassing first sexual experience. Join Samuel as he meanders through this dreamlike world, all with a beer bottle stuck on his little finger. Dylan Thomass gloriously surreal coming-of-age and unfinished novel is given new life by acclaimed writer Lucy Gough. Originally premiered in Wales in 2014, the adaptation was then performed in both Sydney and Melbourne, Australia in 2015. It is published here in Methuen Drama's Plays for Young People series, pitched at ages 16-18. It features an introduction by Sam Mackie, Head of Drama in the English Faculty at The Peninsula School, Victoria.