Book description
VS. Pritchett, master of the short story, is also the most evocative of
travel writers. His portrait of Dublin - its past, politics and people,
its grand mansions and curious corners - is as beguiling and eloquent as
the city itself, as he writes of the Dublin he knew in the 1920s, of
visits to Sean O'Casey and Yeats (brandishing a teapot in his rage at
Shaw) and of the changing city forty years later, facing the future but
still as eccentric and engaging as ever. Victor Sawdon Pritchett
(1900-1997) was born over a toyshop in 1900 and, much to his everlasting
distaste, was named after Queen Victoria. A writer and critic, his is
widely reputed to be one of the best short story writers of all time,
with the rare ability to capture the extraordinary strangeness of
everyday life. He died in 1997.
