num_pages: 245
description: Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was on the cusp of adulthood and of trying, after a breakdown some years later, to piece things together. Drawing on the lessons of centuries of literature, philosophy and visual art, Dillon interprets the relics of his parents and of his childhood in a singularly original and arresting piece of writing.
language: English
title: In The Dark Room
titlecomplete: In The Dark Room
genres: Irish Literature, Memoir, 21st Century, Philosophy, Essays, Photography, Ireland, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 169
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award
category: Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year
publisher: Penguin Ireland