Dream On

Overview

Part black comedy and flashlight noir thriller, part meditation on the stories that connect up the frayed wires in the business of living, this fictional debut experiments with genre boundaries and paints detailed portraits of its characters. There is Digger Davies and his untimely death; the award-winning photographer whose return home will become a quest for his own forgotten identity and compromised life; the thwarted politician in a hospital bed writing his own obituary; and a beautiful girl caught in time, alive in an old man’s memory.

Reviews

"Carries an impressive deal of intensive research lightly . . . the portraiture throughout is graphic, richly detailed and subtly shaded."  —New Welsh Review

Author Biography

Dai Smith is a professor of the cultural history of Wales at Swansea University. He has written extensively about modern Wales, including Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales and Wales: A Question for History. He is a series editor of the Library of Wales and a chair of the Arts Council of Wales.