THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Text copyright © 2016 by John Banville Incorporated

Photographs copyright © 2016 by Paul Joyce

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in Ireland by Hachette Books Ireland, a division of Hachette UK Ltd., Dublin, in 2016.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Faber & Faber Ltd.: Excerpt from “Next, Please” (The Less Deceived, 1977) and “And now the leaves suddenly lose strength” (Collected Poems, 2003) by Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.

Picador: Excerpt from The Newton Letter by John Banville (Picador, 1982).

Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Trustees of the Estate of Katherine B. Kavanagh: “Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin” by Patrick Kavanagh. Reprinted by permission of the Trustees of the Estate of the late Katherine B. Kavanagh, through the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency.

Portions of this work first appeared, in different form, in City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts by Catie Marron with photographs by Oberto Gili, published by HarperCollins, New York, in 2013; and in Sons + Fathers: An Anthology of Words, edited by Kathy Gilfilian, published by Irish Hospice Foundation, Dublin, in 2015.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017950648

ISBN 9781524732837 (hardcover)

ISBN 9781524732844 (ebook)

Ebook ISBN 9781524732844

Cover photograph by Paul Joyce

Cover design by Anú Design (www.anu-design.ie)

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