Pre-Owned The Star Factory (Hardcover) 1559704659 9781559704656

Belfast rises up unforgettably in Ciaran Carson's stunning elegy to his home. For Carson, the Northern Irish city -- known mostly to American readers as troubled -- is situated where memory and imagination meet. His Belfast is a place alive with stories, where childhood's visions fuse with mastery of expression. Every shimmering sentence of this remarkable, loving, and uncanny memoir hums with detail and feeling, whether the subjects of reminiscence are stamps, out-of-print books, airplane models, old trolley-car maps, postcards, the Easter Rebellion, recollections of the Titanic (which was built at Belfast's Queen's Island shipbuilding works), family memoirs, railway patterns, or abandoned factories. Carson dives into his wormhole of memory and conjures up a place of labyrinthine magic. In these pages Belfast is more than just alive; it is life itself. Like Angela's Ashes, The Star Factory is a breathtaking and breathless tour de force no reader will be able to put down.