Time Pieces by John Banville
Alternating between vignettes of John Banville's own past, and present-day historical explorations of the city, Time Pieces is a vivid evocation of childhood and memory, that 'bright abyss' in which 'time's alchemy works'.John Banville's self-portrait evokes the hard-hearted, heartbroken anti-heroes of his fiction. Although Time Pieces excavates some of Dublin's key moments and periods ... its real speciality is in capturing the more abstract romance of city life. Banville is an expert in melancholy urban phenomena: the pleasures of dilapidation and overgrown parklands, the long-gone, gaudy shops of one's past that blaze in the memory * Financial Times *
A beautifully crafted, carefully shaped work of art ... [Banville] has written beautifully - in Time Pieces no less than in his extraordinary novels * Sunday Business Post *
It's the author's love letter to a city he first encountered on annual excursions with his mother from the Wexford of his birth and upbringing. And, as such, it's extraordinarily evocative of a not-quite-vanished metropolis ... it's in his vivid reminiscences of Dublin in the 1950s and early 1960s that the book finds its true heart * Irish Independent *
A moving paean to the city that helped shape the artist as a young man * Image magazine *
[an] intriguing blend of reminiscence and quirky guide to some of the capital's enduring treasures * Irish Independent *
Handsomely published ... for those who know Dublin, or dream of it from afar, there will be much in Time Pieces that is delightful. Rich with lived experience and the pining for things past, in more sense than one it is a book John Banville has been waiting his whole life to write * Sunday Times *
John Banville treats the business of memoir with the elegance of a practised flaneur, weaving into his personal tale a portrait of the Dublin he discovered on boyhood visits from Wexford in the 1950s ... Dublin's streets, squares, gardens and gateways, beautifully photographed by Paul Joyce, reflect the writer's own lost past, early experiences and first love. But the surprise, perhaps, is in the recurrent plangent note of regret or self-criticism. This is what makes Time Pieces an oddly affecting book * TLS *
Being led around the streets and dim back warrens of Dublin by the prodigious and endlessly amused-'n'-amusing John Banville is a literary hop-on-hop-off not to be missed. The sentences alone in Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir are worth your ticket. -- Richard Ford * Financial Times *
If you're interested in Dublin, or if you're interested in the novelist John Banville, or if you're interested in radiantly superb sentences about whatever - I'm all three - then Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir (Hachette Ireland) is a book you'll not be able to put down * The Guardian *
John Banville (Author)
John Banville is an Irish novelist, an adapter of dramas, and a screenwriter. His novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award in 1989. His fourteenth novel, The Sea, won the Booker Prize in 2005.
He has also been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize (2011); the Irish PEN Award (2013); the Austrian State Prize for Literature (2013) and the Prince of Asturias Award (2014).
He has published a number of crime novels as Benjamin Black, most featuring Quirke, an Irish pathologist based in Dublin.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
Paul Joyce (Author)
Paul Joyce's debut film, a unique co-operation with the playwright Samuel Beckett, and exhibitions which followed, established him internationally as a film-maker and photographer in the 1980s. He showed at the National Portrait Gallery, the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Witkin Gallery in New York and his documentaries have been nominated both for International Emmy and Cable Ace Awards. Paul as also published two collaborations with David Hockney and is currently Artist in Residence at Eastwell Manor, Kent.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781473619043 |
| ISBN 10 | 1473619041 |
| Title | Time Pieces |
| Author | John Banville |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Year published | 2016-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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