Dylan Thomas, Andrew Lycett
Dylan Thomas, Andrew Lycett
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Dylan Thomas
A New Life

Author: Andrew Lycett

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 18 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2005

Synopsis

In this authoritative, fresh, and compelling account of the extraordinary life and enduring work of Dylan Thomasauthor of Under Milk Wood, A Childs Christmas in Wales, Adventures in the Skin Trade, Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog, and numerous poems and storiesAndrew Lycett peels back the layers of story that have accumulated around this extraordinarily talented writer, one of the most celebrated and contradictory literary figures of the twentieth century. Lycett uses as his overwhelming motif the deeply ambivalent forces in Thomass lifeI hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me said Thomasthat allowed him to be a wild boy in public and a poet of deep sensitivity in private.

About Andrew Lycett

Andrew Lycett received a history degree from Oxford University before becoming a journalist at the Sunday Times (London), where he served as a foreign correspondent in Africa and the Middle East. He has written acclaimed biographies on Ian Fleming, Dylan Thomas, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, Muammar Qaddafi, and Rudyard Kipling. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ryan

Dylan Thomas was a biographer’s dream: the Premier League pisshead who was also the most original poet of his generation. No story about him was ever going to end ‘he did a crossword, had a cup of tea, and went to bed early’ - and that’s exactly why we like hearing them. Lycett takes the many threads......more

Goodreads review by Cherie

A fascinating but appalling life. I have never read Dylan Thomas, except his Christmas story, but I have always been aware of his name. I found out more than I ever wanted to know about him, his family, his life, his wife, his affairs, his friends and his drinking. Sensationalism on the author's part......more

Goodreads review by Taka

Too much of Dylan-- You do get to know the man behind those beautiful and mysterious poems, and while it's illuminating to find out about his upbringing, doomed domestic life with Caitlin, his numerous affairs, and drinking escapades, it does get a little old. I now have no respect whatsoever for Dyl......more

Goodreads review by Dave

This extraordinary biography digs into the everyday life of this brilliant but deeply flawed poet. It's a tragic story of a man who could not save himself and appears to have associated with friends and associates that were, for the majority, self-absorbed to the extent they could not see the damage......more

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