Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir

From the internationally acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a delicious memoir (New York Times) that unfolds around the author's recollections, experiences, 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.

Author: John Banville
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781524732837


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2017
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2017 pg. 130
Publishers Weekly 01/01/2018
Booklist 01/01/2018 pg. 34
Library Journal 02/15/2018 pg. 61

About the Author
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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