{"product_id":"time-pieces","title":"Time Pieces","description":"For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each year, on his birthday - the 8th of December, Feast of the Immaculate Conception - he and his mother would journey by train to the capital city, passing frosted pink fields at dawn, to arrive at Westland Row and the beginning of a day's adventures that included much-anticipated trips to Clery's and the Palm Beach ice-cream parlour.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The aspiring writer first came to live in the city when he was eighteen. In a once grand but now dilapidated flat in Upper Mount Street, he wrote and dreamed and hoped. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It was a cold time, for society and for the individual - one the writer would later explore through the famed Benjamin Black protagonist Quirke - but underneath the seeming permafrost a thaw was setting in, and Ireland was beginning to change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alternating between vignettes of 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' - and a tender and powerful ode to a formative time and place for the artist as a young man. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Accompanied by images of the city by photographer Paul Joyce.","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671007940955,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/products\/25_26b93654-6b4a-4c22-99d1-1cfeb4902802.jpg?v=1682079367","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/time-pieces","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}