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Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve gan Dannie Abse
ISBN 1905762259, prîs £7.99
Llun clawr Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve gan Dannie Abse

'Funny, Moving and Idiosyncratic.'
New Statesman
'A loving, accurate and funny book.'
Financial Times

Crynodeb:
Wedi derbyn canmoliaeth eang am ei hiwmor cynnes, telynegiaeth a gonestrwydd, yn ogystal â’i bortread manwl cywir o’r tridegau, mae Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve wedi dod yn glasur y siaredir amdano. Yn y nofel fywgraffiadol hyfryd hon, mae Dannie Abse’n plethu themâu cyhoeddus a phersonol yn gelfydd, gan osod ffawd teulu Iddewig yng Nghymru yn erbyn cefnlen gythryblus y cyfnod – diweithdra, ymddangosiad Hitler a Mussolini a Rhyfel Cartref Sbaen.

Nodiadau bywgraffyddol:
Ganed Dannie Abse yng Nghaerdydd ym 1923. Cychwynnodd ei astudiaethau meddygol yn Ysgol Genedlaethol Meddygaeth Cymru a chymhwysodd fel meddyg o Ysbyty Westminster, Llundain ym 1950. Cyhoeddodd ei gyfrol gyntaf o farddoniaeth tra’r oedd yn dal i fod yn fyfyriwr a pherfformiwyd ei ddrama gyntaf. Dilynwyd gan gyfrolau eraill dros y degawdau, gan derfynu gyda’i New & Collected Poems (2003) a Running Late (2006). Ymddangosodd ei nofel gyntaf, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve ym 1954 a’i ddiweddaraf, a fu ar restr hir y Booker, The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas yn 2002. Casglwyd ei dair drama lwyddiannus yn The View from Row G (1990) a chyhoeddwyd ei fywgraffiad, Goodbye, Twentieth Century, yn 2001. Mae’n llywydd yr Academi ac yn Gymrodor y Gymdeithas Lenyddiaeth Frenhinol.

Rhagflas byr

One might expect a poet’s prose to be full of flowery descriptions and metaphors, but not if that writer is Dannie Abse. His modus operandi is both tougher and more human. He is a rare example of a person who has made a commitment to the wellbeing of body and spirit simultaneously through the arts and sciences. Dannie, the young protagonist of Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve, feels attracted by two kinds of work. In conversation with his friend, Keith, he reflects on this: ‘I’ve been thinking,’ I said. ‘What?’ he asked. ‘I think I’ll become a doctor after all.’ ‘Thought you were going to be a poet and an assassin,’ Keith reminded me. ‘No,’ I said. ‘One must choose the difficult path. It’s too easy to be a poet, or to knock off a few heads of Europe. Too easy. I’ll take the difficult path. Anyway, I believe in Democracy.’ ‘What’ll you be tomorrow?’ smiled Keith. ‘Dunno,’ I said.
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