After three years under siege in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, Tom returns to Dublin a brittle, haunted shell of his former
...The publication of Clive James's ' Sentenced to Life' was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with clear-eyed & unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. This book finds James in a similar mood, keen to capture & cherish moments of beauty & love, thinking about how best to live in his remaining days, & casting his mind forward to when he will be gone & how he might be remembered.