Description:
In this astonishing volume of autobiography, inhabited by all that he reads and perceives, Moriarty recovers lost forms of sensibility and categories of understanding, reconciling them gloriously within the arc of his life.
Brief description: John Moriarty was born in Kerry on 2 February 1938 and died there on 1 June 2007. He was educated at St Michael s College, Listowel, and University College Dublin. He taught English literature at the University of Manitoba in Canada for six years, before returning to Ireland in 1971.