{"product_id":"adventures-in-the-skin-trade-an-anti-faustian-tale-of-seven-deadly-skins-9781474269513","title":"Adventures in the Skin Trade: An Anti-Faustian Tale of Seven Deadly Skins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere we are nibbling away all day and night, Mrs Dacey. Nibble nibble. No sense, no order, no nothing, we're all mad and nasty.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamuel Bennett leaves his home in South Wales to pursue a career in London. Setting out with an attitude of reckless, nihilistic purpose, he encounters a nightmarish city with an assortment of bizarre characters and an embarrassing first sexual experience. Join Samuel as he meanders through this dreamlike world, all with a beer bottle stuck on his little finger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDylan Thomas's gloriously surreal coming-of-age and unfinished novel is given new life by acclaimed writer Lucy Gough. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally premiered in Wales in 2014, the adaptation was then performed in both Sydney and Melbourne, Australia in 2015. It is published here in Methuen Drama's Plays for Young People series, pitched at ages 16-18. It features an introduction by Sam Mackie, Head of Drama in the English Faculty at The Peninsula School, Victoria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dylan Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474269513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy Gough was recently invited to take up the Granada artist residency at the University of California Davis, where she wrote and directed a live radio\/theatre piece which was performed and broadcast. She has just been awarded a Creative Wales Award to explore the role of the writer in Physical Theatre. She was also a finalist for the BBC Wales Drama Award 2012 and the Nick Darke Award 2013. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914. After leaving school he worked briefly as a junior reporter on the South Wales Evening Post before deciding to embark on a freelance literary career. He rapidly established himself as a remarkable personality and one of the finest poets of his generation.\u003ci\u003e 18 Poems\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1934, \u003ci\u003eTwenty-five Poems\u003c\/i\u003e in 1936, \u003ci\u003eDeaths and Entrances\u003c\/i\u003e in 1946 and \u003ci\u003eIn Country Sleep \u003c\/i\u003ein 1952. His Collected Poems was published in 1952. Throughout his life, Thomas also wrote short stories, his most famous collection being \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young Dog\u003c\/i\u003e. He also wrote film scripts, was a celebrated broadcaster of radio features and talks, lectured widely in America, and wrote the radio play \u003ci\u003eUnder Milk Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, first broadcast posthumously in 1954.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45125184225395,"sku":"9781474269513","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_98a318c3-1252-44f1-b5bd-1f42cba24227.jpg?v=1782231660","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/adventures-in-the-skin-trade-an-anti-faustian-tale-of-seven-deadly-skins-9781474269513","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}