The Life of Dylan Thomas

London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1975 Reviews on back cover: 'His biography is an excellent job, piloting the reader through a jungle of painful and sordid incidents with good nature, energy, knowledge, and a grasp of what should be shown and explained.' Anthony Powell, Daily Telegraph. Mr FitzGibbon has written a moving and modest biography. He uses his acquaintance with the poet only where it is directly relevant and does not assume that he was offered a unique insight into the character or the poetry. The book avoids the popular myth of the boozy, womanizing poet; but it also avoids the debunking approach, and in fact surrounds its subject with an idiosyncratic aura of greatness.' The Times Educational Supplement 'It is the great merit of this excellent biography that Mr FitzGibbon writes of Thomas with deep affection and admiration yet without either romantic adoration or Freudian condescension. It was high time for such a studious and sensible account as this. Philip Toynbee, Observer 'This is a good book and a deeply concerned one, just, frank, easy, modest in approach, impeccably compassionate, uncompromisingly careful; and it gives a picture of the man that could not, within its limits and intention, be much bettered. It swings neither into denigration nor overpraise as it follows the roundabouts of Dylan's life, hopeful and hopeless by turns. It is eminently readable.' W. R. Rodgers, The Sunday Times -------------------------------------- 422 pages, b/w photographs ---------- Orders of $100.00 or more are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 5½ " Wide and 8½ " Tall