Time pieces : a Dublin memoir
Banville, John2016
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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 18. In a once grand but now dilapidated flat in Upper Mount Street, he wrote and dreamed and hoped. 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.
Main title:
Time pieces : a Dublin memoir / John Banville ; photographs by Paul Joyce.
Author:
Banville, John, authorJoyce, Paul, 1940-, photographer (expression)
Imprint:
Dublin : Hachette Books Ireland, 2016.
Collation:
vii, 215 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781473619043 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
1093906
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