Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir By John Banville

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From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, 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.

At this time of writing, The Audiobook Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir has garnered 9 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Audiobook is Good TO READ!

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One of the great philosophical questions through the ages has been the nature and substance of time. In the very first chapter, “About Time”, Banville poses the question, “When does the past become the past?” It provides, in many ways, the rhetorical theme that unifies what is otherwise part memoir, part guidebook, part picture book, and part social and geo-political commentary.As a result, there is a lot of timely reflection: “The process of growing up is, sadly, a process of turning the mysterious into the mundane.” It even infiltrates the description, as in, “…cups of tea the colour of tree trunks sunk for centuries in swamp-water.”Banville takes us on a magical journey through his life and Dublin both, providing just enough detail to make it informative, but not so much that it ever bogs down. Throughout the journey, moreover, you are sure to have a smile on your face. At one point, he asks, “Do I imagine it, or am I right in thinking that the English can never quite take the Irish seriously? When I am over there I have the impression that everyone I speak to is just about managing to keep a straight face.” I am not English, but I know I read the whole book on the brink of a good chuckle.The writing itself is very witty and very accessible. When comparing the statues of Paris and Ireland, for example, he notes, “In Ireland we tend to erect tremendous plinths and set upon them tiny figurines, our aspirations to gloire seeming to falter at an ascending rate. In Paris, however, those vast stone figures confront us imperiously, overwhelming in their scale, their grandeur, their vividness.”There are plenty of colorful references to other Irish writers and poets. He refers, for example, to Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh, as a “crusty old codger,” but without a trace of disrespect. And he notes about Joyce: “For me, as a writer in the making, the fact was that Joyce had seized upon the city [Dublin] for his own literary purposes and in doing so had used it up, as surely as Kafka did with the letter K, and consequently the place was of no use to me as a backdrop for my fiction.”And while there’s a whiff of adolescent naughty here and there, although it hardly qualifies as even that by today’s standards, there’s not a single expletive in the whole book. The prose is crisp and sharp but never in your face.All told, it’s a delightful stroll through both time and Dublin, although I suspect the author would dislike the “delightful” part. His prose is more creative but straight on. Not quite bare knuckle, if you will, but definitely written with a mischievous twinkle in the eye that i can't hope to match.It’s a quick read and you won’t find a better way to spend an afternoon. So while it’s not transformative in the way we normally use that word, it will transform your day and that deserves a 5 in my book.

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