Paul Joyce

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. "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...