Dylan Thomas: A New Life Audiobook

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• “A colorful and poignant tale.”

  — Time

• “A disturbing and impressive book about a sad man, a tragic man, a drunkard, a lovable cad, a Welshman, and a poetic genius…Lycett approaches the task with thoroughness, scholarship, and true humanity.”

  — New Statesman (London)

• “An absorbing page-turner.”

  — Herald

• “Astonishingly detailed, deeply and expertly researched, and captivatingly written…Lycett’s biography is, frankly, stunning.”

  — Literary Review (London)

• “Lycett’s new biography…[is] told here with thoroughness and impartiality.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Lycett takes just the right tone in this vital and penetrating portrait of the quintessential bad-boy poet, the passionately brilliant and fatally boozy Welshman Thomas, by eschewing reverent mythologizing for respectful accuracy…Incisive…Masterful…Lycett’s engrossing biography illuminates the paradoxes of Thomas’ life and recognizes the ‘indefinable spark of divinity’ that drives his vigorous and transcendent writing.”

  — Booklist