Toasting Friendships, Laying Down Memories in Wexford, Ireland

From his experiences in those first years living on the southeast coast came his book Field Work, an elegiac rumination on loss, friendship, reunion, and country life. In the large, glass-walled library, I found books stuck with beer coasters and unsent letters. More often, when I needed a book, I s...

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Published inWorld literature today Vol. 97; no. 1; p. 80
Main Author Patterson, J. R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Norman University of Oklahoma 2023
Subjects
Banville, John (1945- )
Friendship
Heaney, Seamus
Irish culture
Irish literature
Ireland
Canada
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Summary:From his experiences in those first years living on the southeast coast came his book Field Work, an elegiac rumination on loss, friendship, reunion, and country life. In the large, glass-walled library, I found books stuck with beer coasters and unsent letters. More often, when I needed a book, I strolled down to Reader's Paradise or Red Books, where the shelves heaved and the air was tinged with the old-paper scent of vanilla and hay past its due date.
ISSN:0196-3570
1945-8134
1945-8134
DOI:10.1353/wlt.2023.0045