商品簡介
A young man sits in Italy, trying to write, yet the past refuses to arrange itself into a simple story. Presented as the unfinished papers of Peter Waring, this autobiographical fragment enters a mind where recollection continually becomes reflection, and where dreams, conversations and ordinary scenes carry the pressure of unresolved questions. Peter's account is less a record of events than an intimate attempt to understand how childhood and adolescence shaped his imagination. Against the demands of paternal authority, severe religious expectations and social conformity, Peter struggles to reconcile desire with moral judgement and artistic experience with everyday life. Schooling, friendship, first love, jealousy and loneliness emerge through an intensely subjective voice, while the coast and the Mourne Mountains provide a recurring geography for memory. Reality and fantasy remain uncertain neighbours, each altering the way he sees identity, faith and the people around him. Artistic development unfolds here not as a straightforward ascent but as a psychologically self-conscious search conducted through fragments. Peter revisits family life, education and early adulthood while questioning the standards by which experience is judged, remembered and transformed. The blend of daily observation, inward debate and imaginative vision gives this coming-of-age fiction its distinctive form, preserving the hesitations and contradictions of a consciousness still trying to define itself. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
