city-lit Dublin is essential reading for city-break travellers and lovers of fresh and fascinating writing – as a truly astonishing variety of writers - modern and classic, home-grown and visitors - evoke the myriad pleasures of this legendary writers' city.
Over fifty dazzling writers and more than one hundred extracts bring Dubliners, famous, not so famous and famously fictional, to life.
- Anne Enright reveals the poetry in their soul
- Elizabeth Bowen stays at the Shelbourne
- Brian Lalor can't get enough of Bloomsday
- Joseph O'Connor explores the Dublin man's psyche
- Iris Murdoch evokes the Easter Rising
- Roddy Doyle pities the poor immigrant
- J. P. Donleavy shows us student Dublin
- Hugo Hamilton and a policeman who's seen it all
... and much, much more.
city-pick Dublin is introduced by Orna Ross, well-known Dublin journalist and bestselling author of A Dance in Time, who offers her own fascinating perspective on the city and its writers as Dublin becomes a UNESCO World City of Literature in 2010.
'This new addition to the city-pick series is a reminder of Dublin's rich literary history, as well as an introduction to its contemporary forms ... an elegant, incisive and always entertaining guide to the city's multitude of literary lives' Lonely Planet Magazine.
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Dublin is the latest triumph of distillation. There's
everything here from David Norris's defence of the
significance of Joyce's Ulysses to Irish Murdoch's fictional treatment
of the Easter Rising. You'll read about walking and drinking, being poor
and being poetic, new wealth and newcomers, old timers and returning
natives.' Book of the Month, The Good Web Guide.
'A book you can't miss!' The Lady.
'With over one hundred extracts from over fifty different writers including Roddy Doyle, Samuel Beckett and Chris Binchy there will be plenty of inspiration for exploring the famous streets of the Irish capital' Travelbite.
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city-pick Dublin Paperback £8.99 P & P outside UK £4.00
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