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Time Pieces

By John Banville

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2018
ISBN
9781524732844, 9781524732837
ASIN
B01MRWE02W
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
117 MB (122345464 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
221\0
Time added
2023-07-24 00:46:12

Description

From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries—a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin. 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...

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