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Time pieces a Dublin memoir

Presents a memoir of the author's life near Dublin, a city that inspired his imagination and literary life and served as a backdrop for the dissatisfactions of adult years shaped by Dublin's cultural, political, architectural, and social history.

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Main Author: Banville, John (Author)
Other Authors: Joyce, Paul, 1940- (Photographer)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Banville, John > Homes and haunts > Ireland > Dublin.
Dublin (Ireland) > Social life and customs.
Dublin (Ireland) > Description and travel.
Dublin (Ireland) > History.
Autobiographies.
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Summary:Presents a memoir of the author's life near Dublin, a city that inspired his imagination and literary life and served as a backdrop for the dissatisfactions of adult years shaped by Dublin's cultural, political, architectural, and social history.
Item Description:"Originally published in hardcover in Ireland by Hachette Books Ireland, a division of Hachette UK Ltd, Dublin, in 2016."--Title page verso.
Physical Description:212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210).
ISBN:9781524732837
1524732834
Author Notes:John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He has been the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1976), the Guardian Fiction Prize (1981), the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award (1989), and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1997). He has been both shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1989) and awarded the Man Booker Prize (2005) as well as nominated for the Man Booker International Prize (2007). Other awards include the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2013), and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014). He lives in Dublin.

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