Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve [Paperback]

Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism, and honesty, this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backdrop of the times: unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish Civil War."Funny, moving, and idiosyncratic." —New Statesman

 "A loving, accurate and funny book." —Financial TimesDannie Absewas born in Cardiff in 1923. He began his medical studies at the Welsh National School of Medicine and qualified as a doctor from Westminster Hospital, London in 1950. While still a student his first book of poems was published and his first play performed. Further poetry volumes followed over the decades, culminating in hisNew & Collected Poems(2003) andRunning Late(2006). His first novel,Ash on a Young Man's Sleeveappeared in 1954 and his most recent, the Booker long-listedThe Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glasin 2002.A classic novel newly reissued.