Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog and Other FictionSet in the authors native Swansea in South Wales, the ten autobiographical stories in this much loved collection chart his journey from boyhoodmovingly and at times comically evoked in tales such as The Peaches and A Visit to Grandpasto early adulthood. Along the way, in Extraordinary Little Cough, among others, the vicissitudes of adolescence and a burgeoning sexuality are explored with characteristic tenderness and candour, while Where Tawe Flows