My Life with Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

My Life with Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story Book

"Ours was not only a love story, it was also a drink story", writes Caitlin Thomas. "The bar was our altar and the only significant difference between our drink story and any of the others is that in the middle of it was a genius poet". Caitlin Thomas' s stormy marriage to Dylan has been covered by the biographers often enough, but it is only now, following her death in 1994, that her own account of those turbulent years is published. Caitlin MacNamara was born into a far more chaotic and bohemian family than Dylan's suburban clan. For instance her family were friends with the painters Augustus and Gwen John; and Augustus raped her when she sat for him once. In fact the path of her alcoholism had been set long before she met Dylan, but when they came together neither of them stood a chance against the drink. Caitlin's sparky and invigorating prose is well suited to depicting both their passionate love-hate relationship and her battle with drink following Dylan's death. This is in many ways a tragic story of suffering and torment but it ends--after a new life in Italy with her husband and son and 20 years of sobriety before her death--with a welcome sense of final contentment and peace. --Nick WroeRead More

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  • Amazon

    * This is an extraordinary memoir of a life dedicated to drink and Dylan Thomas * Will coincide with a major new film, THE EDGE OF LOVE, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys

  • Foyles

    From the moment they met at a pub in London, drink was the most conspicuous part of the lives of Caitlin and her 'genius poet', Dylan Thomas. It fuelled their sexual adventures, lessened their shyness and enriched their social life. This searing book is Caitlin's story of the passions, the rage and the tragic humour of those years of drink and the toll it took on the lives of two talented people, leaving one of them dead at the age of thirty-nine, and the other alone, penniless and an alcoholic. It is also the memoir of a woman not always likeable, but consistently energetic and honest and possessing an indomitable spirit.

  • 184408518X
  • 9781844085187
  • Caitlin Thomas
  • 5 June 2008
  • Virago Press Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 174
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