'I kiss your heart. I kiss you everywhere.'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.'Pearl, darling... I'll sit in the Savage, drinking Punch and reading sherry until your letter comes. The world is empty this side of the damned sea. I love you, Dylan.'
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A Pearl of Great Price
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Table of contents
- A PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
- Introduction: Dylan and Pearl
- The Letters
- Letter One
- Letter Two
- Letter Three
- Letter Four
- Letter Five
- Letter Six
- A Note on the Letters
- Afterword: A Life of Pearl Kazin Bell by David Bell
- Appendix: The Jester by Pearl Kazin
- The Jester
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Information
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