Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir Hardback - 2018
by John Banville
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This was such a beautiful book: beautifully written, beautifully illustrated with photos by Paul Joyce, and beautifully bound. To visit a city in the company of one who knows and loves it is always exciting and illuminating. But if that guide is also one of the most skillful writers in modern history, that visit becomes unforgettable. John Banville--or Benjamin Black, as he's known to fans of his mysteries--gives the reader not only the pleasure of his company but also that of some of Dublin's best known habitues past and present. For example, we lunch with Banville's friend Cicero and the Nobel poet Seamus Heaney, recovering from a stroke but "funny and entertaining as ever," and find Heaney "...touched with a tender melancholy, a kind of shadowed sweetness." Through much of the book, Cicero guides Banville to famous and infamous landmarks of the city's checkered history, and Banville connects them for the reader with his own personal and literary memories. "Time Pieces" is a portrait not only of Dublin--which Banville has treasured since his annual birthday excursions there in his childhood--but also a glimpse into the soul of the brilliant writer whose perambulations around the city reveal a "tender melancholy" of his own.
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- Title Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir
- Author John Banville
- Binding Hardback
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
- Publication date 2018-02
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9781524732837 / 1524732834
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 6.4 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 16.26 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Ireland
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects Dublin (Ireland) - Social life and customs -, Dublin (Ireland) - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017950648
- Dewey Decimal Code 914.183
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- Booklist, 01/01/2018, Page 34
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2017, Page 130
- Library Journal, 02/15/2018, Page 61
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/01/2017, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 01/01/2018, Page 0
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