Time Pieces [signed] [first edition]

Having been born in Wexford, the young John Banville found Dublin all the more alluring and the novelists memories stretch back to childhood trips in the 1950s, when the city, although poverty-stricken at the time, held magical promise for a boy. In this combination of vignettes from his own past, his historical investigations of Dublin and Paul Joyces photographs, Banville asks What transmutation must the present go through in order to become the past?