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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
The 'Young Dog' of the title is of course Thomas himself, and this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance and verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales and a creator of memorable characters.
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
November 1st 2001
by Phoenix Press
(first published 1940)
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There were always a few Dylan Thomas poems in our English lit books in high school - "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" was the most prominent - but I don't think I really got it until I heard a recording of him reading "A Child's Christmas In Wales" in his incredibly rich, expressive and tender baritone. The stories in this little volume are in that vein - quaint and loving reminiscences of his boyhood Wales, but unsparing, and richly evocative. Here is a short sentence...more
There's a great deal of interesting characters to these stories and though they don't really knock you over the head, they tend to stick with you for awhile in all their small subtleties. What I really enjoyed about this book is, and excuse me for being very Holden Caufield-y but none of the characters are fake or phony even the guy who convinces two women he loves them both. There's a sense of innocence to these Welsh human beings even when their intentions are not so good and there's also a ...more
I don't like Dylan Thomas' short stories nearly as much as his poetry and Under Milk Wood, but he certainly has a way with words, with descriptions that are fresh and different. For that it gets an extra star than I would normally give it.
A couple of these stories -- 'A Visit to Grandpa's' and 'One Warm Saturday' -- are really going to stick in my mind.
As with Under Milk Wood, likely to reward rereading: I'd read 'The Peaches' and 'Extraordinary Little Cough' before, and ...more
A couple of these stories -- 'A Visit to Grandpa's' and 'One Warm Saturday' -- are really going to stick in my mind.
As with Under Milk Wood, likely to reward rereading: I'd read 'The Peaches' and 'Extraordinary Little Cough' before, and ...more
I started telling my friend this story from my childhood when I realized I had no memory of the event. It wasn't my childhood at all but Three Peaches. Dylan's stories are so natural and absorbing that they settle in with you.
Excellent book. I read it for a class and we kind of treated it more as a novel than a short story collection for the purposes of the class, but it's the book that I chose to write my final paper on. The short stories are very good, and most are sad or bittersweet, but not all. Also, the narrator for the most part is Thomas himself, which means he's a very boyish boy and mannish man. You know, stuff like getting into fights with kids and becoming friends over that, getting drunk a lot when older...more
Although Dylan Thomas is more known for his poetry, I decided to try a collection of his short stories. I enjoyed some of them, but some I had trouble following. I understand he had an incredible voice and that people loved to hear him do readings. Some of it really was great, but I think if he wasn't "famous" I wouldn't think much of them as a whole. They are autobiographical and all I kept thinking as I read them was, "here is a perfect example of a GT boy/young man."
I especially liked: The Fight and One Warm Saturday. I haven't read any Dylan Thomas before, but I really enjoyed the atmospheric feeling of his prose. I think the predominant themes of isolation, loneliness, and longing were captured beautifully in the exploration of coming of age in the city. Seems to me he has a pretty vast and deep understanding of the human condition.
A great blend of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners makes this a beguiling book. It is more allusion than aping, which makes it all the more interesting, and all the stories are great, the final one especially is a piece of classic greatness. I am impressed.
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Amazing writing. It seems to vibrate, its so alive. Funny, tragic, eerie and mostly about just regular everyday life. Short stories and loose threads of thought. I wish he hadn't died so young. I love just about everything he ever wrote, even down to his letters.
Dylan Thomas + short stories = heaven. A woman sitting next to me in a plane last week saw this and said, "He was probably a genius, right?" She was reading a pulp thriller. "So is this woman. She has some really big words in here." Enough said.
This was an awful compilation of short stories. I admit it, I bought it because the book cover was amusing. But, seriously, every piece of work has a beginning, middle, and end. Every single short story in this book was purely 'middle' . . . no real beginning, no real ending. Alas, I had to give it a star - but if I could give it less, I would. Ugh.
A pre-War Welsh childhood in story form, the prose studded with the kind of linguistic jewels that only a poet can muster. Uneven in their quality, the best are those of early childhood. Get your hands on a copy for the first story, The Peaches, alone.
It was a kinda slow at times, and sometimes it didn't really keep my attention. The end is really good, but I'm not sure if it is sufficiently good to make up for the slow rest of the book. It's definitely well written, many of the descriptions are really quite beautiful, but overall it was just okay. The style was nice, and if I spent more time thinking about the book and what it was saying I probably would have liked it more.
Wordy descriptions, it took me longer to read than I expected. Some parts reminded me of My Uncle Silas - the old sly men of a certain age I think!
Recommend.
Recommend.
I'm sure I've heard of this book, and yet I somehow didn't know that Thomas wrote short stories. It was a lovely $2 find, although the binding needs to be reglued.
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Tho a homage to James Joyce's paradigmatic Portrait, Dylan Thomas' work here made much less of an impression.
Short stories written in that wonderful prose style that makes Dylan Thomas so special.
I especially like "One Warm Saturday" and "Who Do You Wish Was With Us"
I just love D.T. His short stories are incredibly descriptive and sublime.
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog, by Dylan Thomas (1968)
Mmm Dylan Thomas about sums it up.
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My first read of Dylan Thomas. I must read the rest.
last story gets 5 stars, rest get 3.
witty, hilarious, welsh
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interesting.
Need to reread.
Beautiful use of language
A little slow at times. The style was nice, but overall it was just okay.
I think I've said this before, but words make me fall in love. I've fallen in love over email with a guy I never met simply because the way he wrote overpowered me and really resonated. Dylan Thomas is like that too. A warm fuzzy blanket of words that I can wrap up in, like an old friend. There is pain and love and hope and hopelessness in his writing, the perfect window into a perfect mind.
Dylan Thomas never fails at reclaiming his literary streets, although I found his portrait kind of painted in water colours when it should have been oil based - I guess he was merely whittling away at memories and on this level it worked. Don't get me wrong, I think the man is a enigma of brazen thought, only this particular work sort of tied me over rather then carried me away.
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Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet. He is regarded by many as one of the 20th century's most influential poets.
In addition to poetry, Thomas also wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, with the latter frequently performed by Thomas himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his booming, at times ostentatious, voice with a subtle Welsh...more
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In addition to poetry, Thomas also wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, with the latter frequently performed by Thomas himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his booming, at times ostentatious, voice with a subtle Welsh...more
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