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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.
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Terry Coughenour
reviewed Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve on April 14, 2011
Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve is an autobiographical account of growing up Welsh and Jewish, in the period leading up to and during the Second World War. Throughout the text there's the rumblings of war, references to Hitler, and references to events that seem so much more important in the Welsh literature of that period than the English writing of the period -- namely, the conflict in Spain.
The narration is compelling -- like the memory, it skips around in time, makes references to things that happened before and after, picks up on a detail and runs with what comes up... It felt like listening to someone who needed to tell a story and take their time to get there, especially once you read the last few pages.
Parts of the narration are beautiful, too. You can tell Dannie Abse is a poet. "Cariad, clean heart, listen to me, this is my beginning..."
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