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Walking With Ghosts - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Walking With Ghosts - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor
and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.
As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne
sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near
his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to
working-class parents and the eldest of six children, he harboured a
childhood desire to become a priest. When he was eleven years old,
Byrne found himself crossing the Irish Sea to join a seminary in
England. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled and he quickly
returned to his native city. There he took odd jobs as a messenger boy
and a factory labourer to get by. In his spare time he visited the
cinema, where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was here
that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of ’60s
Ireland.
He revelled in the theatre and poetry of Dublin’s streets, populated by
characters as eccentric and remarkable as any in fiction, those who
spin a yarn with acuity and wit. It was a friend who suggested Byrne
join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change his life
forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film
and theatre. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now
almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and on
Broadway, Byrne also courageously recounts his battle with addiction
and the ambivalence of fame.
Walking with Ghosts is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking as well as
a lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our
destinies.
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