Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog: Stories (Paperback)

from Polaris-

With a title nodding at James Joyce, Thomas' first prose collection (after several volumes of poetry) was published in 1940. Also autobiographical, these ten somewhat bittersweet stories cover different periods in the author's childhood, later youth and early adulthood. These stories are tenderly...

from kirstiecat

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 char...

from varwenea

The poet Thomas shares with us nuggets of his youth, adolescence, and early adulthood in these charming stories, many of which are poetically written, with lyrically descriptive sentences of scenes, of emotions, of backgrounds. Some brought upon a giggle. Though not all spoke to me, most did. Pea...

from DanielSTJ

This was a great examination of Dylan in his own view. The childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood that he portrays is legible and remarkable. A fine book.

from basiltherat

A collection of stories detailing Dylan Thomas' schooldays and time spent as a budding poet through to life as an apprentice reporter dreamer & drinker.