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  • Goodbye Twentieth Century

    by Dannie Abse ...
    Series Book 32 - Library of Wales
    Drawing upon his Welsh and Jewish heritage, Dannie Abse presents a rich autobiography that chronicles his life as both a doctor and an author. Humorous and poignant, this new edition not only includes the acclaimed first volume A Poet in the Family, but also discusses the changes in the political and literary landscape over the last century. With a chapter featuring brand new material by the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Selected Poems

    by Dannie Abse ...
    The year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Dannie Abse's first poetry collection, After Every Green Thing, and since that time he has published an astonishing range of books, including poetry, fiction, criticism and autobiography. He remains a writer of great distinction who is at the height of his powers - his memoir, The Presence, won the Wales Book of the Year in 2008. But ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve

    by Dannie Abse ...
    Series series Library of Wales
    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. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Cardiff

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Martha O’Brien, Martha O’Brien, Isabella Barber, Leonora Brito, Dannie Abse, Deborah Kay Davies, Hanan Issa, Emma Harney, Jon Blake, Declan Andrews, Leo Drayton0, John L. Williams1, Alistair Reynolds2 ...
    A snowball fight between rival schools, divided by language, melts into a genuine offer of support for a family of newcomers...A homeless man recalls how he inherited his grandmother’s ability to smell lies, only to tell his biggest fib right in front of her...An embattled sweetshop owner plots revenge on a mischievous schoolboy – one who might be familiar to us all…As the stories in this ... Read more

    $10.00 CAD

  • Infrastructural Critique

    Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition

    by Marina Vishmidt, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten ...
    A theory of art and infrastructure by one of her generation’s most brilliant critical theoristsAs we search for a life beyond capital, the dream that galleries and museums can function as a refuge from existing social relations appears less credible by the day. In response, Infrastructural Critique proposes a new materialist counterpraxis. By treating contemporary art institutions as a site of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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