Dublin City-pick

'Dublin City-lit' 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.

\"Okay, London might have its share of good writers ... but in a straight contest - great writers per head of population - isn't Dublin the clear winner? Haven't we four Nobel Prizewinners (Shaw, Yeats, Becket and Heaney) out of only a million or so inhabitants? As well as the world's best novelist (Joyce) who should have got one too?\" - Orna Ross, introduction to city-pick Dublin

\"The next in this excellent city-pick series, with some 100 plus extracts from a diverse collection of writers\" - Sarah Broadhurst Paperback Preview, The Bookseller

ISBN: 9780955970016
Author: REYES HEATHER
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20/07/2010
RRP: $19.99
Pages: 244
Dimension: 197mm X 130mm
Imprint: Oxygen Books