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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First American Edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in NEW condition. Photographs by Paul Joyce. "Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, John Banville--author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--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'). When he lived outside Ireland, the city remained alive and indelible in his memory (that 'bright abyss' in which 'time's alchemy works'). Returning to live in Ireland, he found Dublin to be as fascinating--albeit for different reasons--as it had been to his seven-year-old self. Now, in an evocative, witty, clear-eyed 'quasi-memoir,' he guides us around the city, delighting in its high and low cultural, architectural, political and social histories, and interweaving the memories that are attached to particular places and moments and people. The result is a book as much about the life of a city as it is about a life intermittently lived there--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." [jacket copy] "Beautifully true and vaguely obscene, with people and place and weather positioned in artful, erotic balance."--Financial Times. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an evocative, intact jacket; a quite presentable & beautiful Knopf production. Seller Inventory # RUB1895