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Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse
Philip O Ceallaigh
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Description for Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse
Hardcover. 281pp
Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works - emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents - his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was on the cusp of adulthood - and of trying, after a breakdown some years later, to piece things together. Drawing on the lessons of centuries of literature, philosophy and visual art, Dillon interprets the relics of his parents and of his childhood in a singularly original and arresting piece ... Read more
Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works - emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents - his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was on the cusp of adulthood - and of trying, after a breakdown some years later, to piece things together. Drawing on the lessons of centuries of literature, philosophy and visual art, Dillon interprets the relics of his parents and of his childhood in a singularly original and arresting piece ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin Ireland London
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, Ireland
ISBN
9781844880461
SKU
9780141029023
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About Philip O Ceallaigh
Brian Dillon is a native of Dublin. He writes on literature and visual art for publications including the TLS, Independent, Time Out, Irish Times, Frieze, Mute, Cabinet, and World of Interiors. In the Dark Room is his first book.
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