Days Of '49 Author:Alan Halsey, Gavin Selerie In 1949 the USSR exploded its first A-bomb, Ezra Pound won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Samuel Beckett burnt his letters from James Joyce, Orson Welles appeared in THE THIRD MAN, and Alan Halsey and Gavin Selerie were born. In DAYS OF '49 these two British writers mingle history, autobiography, and poetic admixtures to produce this dist... more »inctly "original" document.« less