Farewell to Prague (Paperback)
Following a crippling depression and institutionalization,the writer Desmond wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe,and as far as the southern United States,assembling a patchwork of small stories,conversations,love affairs,memories,regrets,and confrontations: the labyrinth of stories of people whose lives you touch... so that your mind becomes like a polychromatic Irish pub. Whether a series of tragic postcards,a cubist novel,or a memoir shorn of its co