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Time pieces : a Dublin memoir / John Banville ; photographs by Paul Joyce.

By: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First American EditionDescription: 212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), photographs ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781524732837
  • 1524732834
Other title:
  • Dublin memoir
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 914.18/35
LOC classification:
  • PR6052 .A57 Z46 2018
Summary: As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived. And though, when he came of age and took up residence there, and the city became a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions (not playing an identifiable role in his work until the Quirke mystery series, penned as Benjamin Black), it remained in some part of his memory as fascinating as it had been to his seven-year-old self. And as he guides us around the city, delighting in its cultural, architectural, political, and social history, he interweaves the memories that are attached to particular places and moments. The result is both a wonderfully idiosyncratic tour of Dublin, and a tender yet powerful ode to a formative time and place for the artist as a young man.
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PR6052 .A3195 M37 1998 Master Georgie : a novel / PR6052 .A57 M78 2017 Mrs. Osmond / PR6052 .A57 S43 2006 The sea / PR6052 .A57 Z46 2018 Time pieces : a Dublin memoir / PR6052 .A6475 B6 1998 Books of blood : volumes one to three / PR6052 .A6488 S55 2018 The silence of the girls : a novel / PR6052 .A6657 A84 2006 Arthur & George /

As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived. And though, when he came of age and took up residence there, and the city became a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions (not playing an identifiable role in his work until the Quirke mystery series, penned as Benjamin Black), it remained in some part of his memory as fascinating as it had been to his seven-year-old self. And as he guides us around the city, delighting in its cultural, architectural, political, and social history, he interweaves the memories that are attached to particular places and moments. The result is both a wonderfully idiosyncratic tour of Dublin, and a tender yet powerful ode to a formative time and place for the artist as a young man.

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