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Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir by John Banville, Paul Joyce (Hardcover, 2016)
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For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each year, on his birthday - the 8th of December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception - he and his mother would journey by train to the capital city, passing frosted pink fields at dawn, to arrive at Westland Row and the beginning of a day's adventures that included much-anticipated trips to Clery's and the Palm Beach ice-cream parlour. The aspiring writer first came to live in the city when he was eighteen. In a once grand but now dilapidated flat in Upper Mount Street, he wrote and dreamed and hoped. Yeats's daughter Anne, a painter, lived in the flat below; Patrick Kavanagh would often take a rest from a hard day's drinking, sitting on the steps of the house and glaring at the Dolmen Press offices on the other side of the street; and one fine summer afternoon there was the enchanting sight of poet Thomas Kinsella, in his Civil Service suit, strolling down Baggot Street enjoying an ice-cream cone. It was a cold time, for society and for the individual - one the writer would later explore through the famed Benjamin Black protagonist Quirke - but underneath the seeming permafrost the thaw was setting in, and Ireland was beginning to change. Alternating between vignettes of Banville's own past, and present-day historical explorations of the city, TIME PIECES is a vivid evocation of childhood and memory - that 'bright abyss' in which 'time's alchemy works' - and a tender and powerful ode to a formative time and place for the artist as a young man. Accompanied by stunning images of the city by photographer Paul Joyce.Product Identifiers
PublisherHachette Books Ireland
ISBN-139781473619043
eBay Product ID (ePID)225548104
Product Key Features
Book TitleTime Pieces: a Dublin Memoir
AuthorJohn Banville, Paul Joyce
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLocal History, Memorials, History
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height297mm
Item Width212mm
Item Weight731g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJohn Banville, Paul Joyce
Country/Region of ManufactureIreland
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- 22 Nov, 2018
Superb writing
A delightful book. Art, architecture, social history, personal history. This is a compelling read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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