Opening with a quote from Richard Brautigan--"I've been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning"--Scenes from a Receding Past constructs the adolescence and early adulthood of Dan Ruttle out of a variety of scenes and reminiscences about his life in Ireland, his time in a Catholic school, his first sexual experiences, and his brother's mental breakdown. The second half of the book centers around his relationship with his future wife Olivia, her past, and her former ...
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Opening with a quote from Richard Brautigan--"I've been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning"--Scenes from a Receding Past constructs the adolescence and early adulthood of Dan Ruttle out of a variety of scenes and reminiscences about his life in Ireland, his time in a Catholic school, his first sexual experiences, and his brother's mental breakdown. The second half of the book centers around his relationship with his future wife Olivia, her past, and her former lovers. Calling to mind Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man for Dan Ruttle's love-hate relationship with Ireland and the stylistic innovations employed by Higgins, Scenes from a Receding Past is a masterpiece from one of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers.
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Very Good. 1977. Hardcover. Very good copy in good dustwrappers. DW has light shelf wear. Light foxing, remains a very good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very good. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Stated first edition. The binding suffers minor loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. A few pages with ink scoring in margins, topedge lightly foxed, corners slightly bumped, very good in a slightly sunned very good dust jacket with minor edgewear and modest age-toning. Signed by the author. A novel about an Irish man, told from his childhood to his marriage and then later days in London; the story interleaves with the author's previous novel, *Balcony of Europe*.