Description
In May 1950, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas visited Harper's Bazaar in New York to offer his prose piece "A Child's Christmas in Wales". He met Miss Pearl Kazin, the Fiction Editor, and they began a passionate relationship that lasted over a year. Recently, six love letters from Dylan to Pearl were discovered, shedding light on their relationship and giving a glimpse into Dylan's side of the story. This discovery has provided a unique insight into the poet's life and has been praised by the Sunday Times.
New York, May, 1950. A warm Spring day and a short, and portly, thirty-five year old Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, pushes through the plush revolving doors of Harper's Bazaar, in the heart of bustling downtown Manhattan. He was taking a chance on offering 'A Child's Christmas in Wales', a prose piece that had already served him well, but Harper's were not to know that. There, he meets Miss Pearl Kazin, Fiction Editor, highly-educated and out to make her own mark on New York; a woman, vastly different in manner, substance and background to his other New York 'lady-friends', with whom he fell in love, with consequences that were to disturb him profoundly for more than a year. An intense and passionate relationship began on that day. One side of their correspondence has survived, six 'love letters', never before published, sent from Dylan to Pearl. Until these letters came to light Pearl had remained something of a ghost; now, they offer part of Dylan's side of the story.
Review:
A unique insight. -- Sunday Times
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