Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City

First edition. 12mo. Pp. [x], 244, [2]. Laminated pictorial paper boards, titles to spine in black; map endpapers.

Signed by Author to title-page.

The fourth book in Bloomsbury's The Writer and the City series, in which distinguished authors offer their intimate, idiosyncratic thoughts on a city they know well. From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, this is a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries. Not a guidebook but rather, in the author's own words, "a handful of recollections, variations on a theme" of the city's past and present. "Ireland's finest contemporary novelist." –The Economist