First edition hardback, 2012, with no jacket as issued. In overall fine, unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Invader Wore Slippers: European Essays

Publisher

Notting Hill Editions

Publication Date

2012

Language

English

ISBN 10

1907903518

ISBN 13

9781907903519

Binding

Hardback

Edition

1st.

Condition

Fine

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'The breadth of Butler's interests and concerns is remarkable, even for a writer whose career spanned the greater part of a tumultuous century ...whether he is writing about wartime atrocities or local history, the slaughter of the Jews or Celtic hagiography, he speaks with authenticity. In this he is a member of a dying species.' John Banville 'Like Milosz from Poland or Holub from Czechoslovakia, Butler is a true cosmopolitan, and his writing has something of their unruffled astringency and meditative humour.' John Bayley 'An odyssey, from Ireland to East, West and back again: stemming from and returning to an intellectual tradition which takes in Montaigne and Turgenev as well as Swift and Shaw - It moves like a searchlight, to take in and illuminate the largest questions imaginable.' R.F. Foster 'To follow Hubert Butler is to enjoy the hair-raising frisson of history passing by.' Eoghan Harris

About the Author

Hubert Butler won international recognition during his lifetime with the publication of three volumes of essays, Escape from the Anthill (1985), The Children of Drancy (1988) and Grandmother and Wolfe Tone (1990). John Banville's novels include The Book of Evidence, The Sea and The Infinities. He reviews frequently for the Irish Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books.

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