While still undecided on the subtitle – a crucial matter – I signed a contract
The publishing company’s computer system knew I existed, clearly, because every summer it invited me to a garden party to meet my fellow authors
It was for a big English publisher, whose affable Irish editor gradually talked me into it over coffees and pints of Guinness during his occasional visits home.Local revolution – Frank McNally on the epochal Irish elections of 1899The book would be about Ireland, he said, but more specifically about the Ireland outside Dublin, something not well known to British readers and with which he thought I had an affinity.
My title implied not only geographic extremes, if I was planning a travelogue, but also spiritual ones, if I wanted to dig deeper. No sooner had this happened, alas, than my Irish friend left the publishing company – they had been having artistic differences – and joined another. The company’s computer system knew I existed, clearly, because every summer it invited me to a garden party to meet my fellow authors. I was often tempted to go but never did. In the meantime, the long-spent advance haunted me.
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