The Presence
- Authors
- Abse, Dannie
- Publisher
- Vintage Digital
- Tags
- biography , poetry , bereavement , family , personal memoirs , self-help , autobiography , grief , death , relationships
- ISBN
- 9781448103751
- Date
- 2007-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.52 MB
- Lang
- en
WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ACKERLY PRIZE.
Several months after the death of poet Dannie Abse's wife, Joan, in a car accident, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of a marriage that lasted more than fifty years. It is an extraordinary document, painful but celebratory, funny yet often tragic, bursting with joy as well as sorrow and full of a deep understanding of what it means to be human.