000			01858 a2200205 4500
020			_a9781524732837
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a941.835 _bB228t
100			_aBanville, John
245			_aTime pieces _ba Dublin memoir _cJohn Banville; photographs by Paul Joyce
260			_bAlfred A. Knopf _c2016 _aNew York
300			_a212p
520			_aFrom 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 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.
650			_aBanville, John
650			_aAuthors, English -- Biography
650			_aDublin (Ireland) -- History
700			_aJoyce, Paul [photo]
942			_cBK
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