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S'està carregant… My Father's Places (2009 original; edició 2009)de Aeronwy Thomas
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I met Aeronwy Thomas many years ago - I was at school studying Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' and 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog' and one of my teachers, who knew Aeronwy Thomas through the Dylan Thomas Society, asked her to come and talk to us. She was a wonderful speaker, we all felt the magic she perceived in her childhood, her love for her father and got some sense of the man behind the myth. Many of those stories appear in this book - her mother's stew, which would be green by the end of the week, her parents leaving her alone to care for her younger brother while they would go drinking and the magic of Laugharne and its people. Even at that young age and in the midst of a rebellion against my parents (I was 14) I remember my blood boiling at her parent's behaviour and was quite relieved that they weren't my parents - something I know she would have felt was a harsh judgement. As she says of her mother, 'When her husband died, she was bereft, with moments of despair when she looked at the empty bed, describing her attempts to forget with other men, drinking and unruly behaviour which did not give her any satisfaction. This is an interesting read for anyone interested in the last years of Dylan Thomas's life. ( )
Thomas died in 1953, at the age of 39, mainly as a result of alcohol. Aeronwy remained devoted to his memory, “a worldwide ambassador for her father’s work”, and president of the Dylan Thomas society, as well as an acclaimed poet in her own right. There are some wonderful photos here, my favourite being of a young, tousle-haired Aeronwy lying in bed next to her grandmother Granny Flo, reading the paper. This is a moving memoir, though the prevailing mood is a sad one. Aeronwy died of cancer on July 27 this year, at the age of 66, asking for her ashes to be scattered at the boathouse in Laugharne.
In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, nine-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to settle and work. In Laugharne Dylan began some of his most famous works, including Under Milk Wood. Mornings were spent in Brown's Hotel, listening to the gossip at Ivy William's kitchen table. In the afternoons Caitlin would lock the poet into a shed in the garden, where he sat speaking his verse aloud as he wrote, or composed begging letters to patrons and friends. Often he would head off to London, and old haunts. Little Aeronwy enjoyed the new world around her. In the Boat House, ruled over by Caitlin, there was baby Colm and in the holidays visits from big brother Llewellyn, as well as Dolly, the cleaner and cook, and the house became a refuge for village characters, including Booda the deaf, mute ferry man. The memoir paints scenes of sudden drama and poetry: reading Wind in the Willows with her father in the evenings; fish treading in the mud below the house with her mother; afternoons with Grandma Flo and DJ at the Pelican. Dylan's fame grows and he tours the United States to read his poetry. Aeronwy watches as the marriage fractures, and at last the poet dies in New York, far away from his children. My Father's Places is a deeply moving portrait of growing up and an insight into the origins and the legacy of Dylan Thomas's poetry. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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