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Item Details
Title:
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THE PRESENCE
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By: |
Dannie Abse |
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Paperback |
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£15.99 |
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£11.67 |
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ISBN 10: |
0099531860 |
ISBN 13: |
9780099531869 |
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Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
2 October, 2008 |
Pages: |
288 |
Description: |
Several months after the death of poet's wife, Joan, in a car accident, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of a marriage that lasted more than fifty years. This title is a document, painful but celebratory, bursting with joy as well as sorrow and a deep understanding of what it means to be human. |
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WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ACKERLY PRIZE. Several months after the death of poet Dannie Abse's wife, Joan, in a car accident, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of a marriage that lasted more than fifty years. It is an extraordinary document, painful but celebratory, funny yet often tragic, bursting with joy as well as sorrow and full of a deep understanding of what it means to be human. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage |
Prizes: |
Winner of Wales Book of the Year: English Language Award 2008
Short-listed for PEN/Ackerley Prize 2008 |
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