About the Book: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
One afternoon, in a particularly bright and glowing August, some years before I
knew I was happy...
Charming, evocative and imbued with the melancholy of nostalgia, Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Dog is Dylan Thomass much-loved collection of loosely
autobiographical short fiction. First we meet the young schoolboy, gloriously
immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard; then, the budding poet with his
thrilling friendships and dreams of fortune; and finally, young Mr Thomas, the
penniless journalist who hoped, in a vague way, to live on women.
Shot through with the exuberance