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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, author John Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child. It was first a birthday treat, the world his beloved, eccentric aunt inhabited. When he came of age and took up residence there, the city was a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions as a young writer (James Joyce had 'seized upon the city for his own literary purposes and in doing so had used it up')....
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