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Books by John Banville
  | | The Sea(1st Edition) by John Banville Paperback, 195 Pages, Published 2006 by Vintage International ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-9702-9, ISBN: 1-4000-9702-9 "Incandescent prose. Beautifully textured characterisation. Transparent narratives. The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and The Sea is a ringing affirmation of all his best qualities. His publishers are claiming that this novel by the Booker-shortlisted author is his finest yet, and while that claim may have an element of hyperbole, there is no denying that this perfectly balanced book is among th ..." |
 | | The Untouchable(1st Edition) by John Banville Paperback, 367 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76747-3, ISBN: 0-679-76747-9 "One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence, for many years art expert to the Queen. Now he has been unmasked as a Russian agent and subjected to a disgrace that is almost a kind of death. But at whose in ..." |
 | | The Infinities(Reprint) by John Banville Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-47439-1, ISBN: 0-307-47439-9 "On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his nineteen-year-old daughter, Petra, filled with voices and visions as she waits for the inevitable; their stepmother, Ursula, whose relations with the Godley children are strained at best; and Petr ..." |
 | | The Book of Evidence(Reprint) by John Banville Paperback, 219 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72523-4, ISBN: 0-375-72523-7 "John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his a ..." |
 | | Snow (Hardback) by John Banville Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2020 by Hanover Square Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-335-23000-3, ISBN: 1-335-23000-9 "The incomparable Booker Prize winner's next great crime novel--the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County ..." |
 | | Mrs. Osmond(Reprint) by John Banville Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97289-2, ISBN: 1-101-97289-0 "In Mrs. Osmond, John Banville continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond. Here Banville imagines Isabel’s second chapter telling the story of a woman reawakened by grief and the knowled ..." |
 | | The Book of Evidence, The Sea(Updated) (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) by John Banville, Adam Phillips Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2015 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71272-2, ISBN: 0-375-71272-0 "Two essential novels from one of the most imaginative writers of our time: The Sea, winner of the Man Booker prize, and The Book of Evidence, an unforgettable literary mystery short-listed for the Booker prize. The Book of Evidence is a brilliantly disturbing portrait of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is an aimless, eccentric, and highly cultured man whose arrest for the murder of a servant girl prompts him to offer the read ..." |
 | | Ancient Light(1st Edition) by John Banville Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-95705-4, ISBN: 0-307-95705-5 "The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism and the sly humor t ..." |
 | | Kepler(Reprint) A novel by John Banville Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1993 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74370-5, ISBN: 0-679-74370-7 "‘Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge’ Observer Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and astronomers. This novel brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe while being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time it ill ..." |
 | | The Singularities (Hardcover) by John Banville Hardcover, Published 2022 by Random House Lcc Us Okt 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65517-6, ISBN: 0-525-65517-4 |
 | | Snow (Paperback or Softback) by John Banville Paperback, Published 2021 by Hanover Square Press ISBN-13: 978-1-335-62903-6, ISBN: 1-335-62903-3 |
 | | Time Pieces(1st Edition) A Dublin Memoir by John Banville Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3283-7, ISBN: 1-5247-3283-4 "From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in ..." |
 | | The Blue Guitar - Signed at The Cheltenham Literature Festival(1st Edition) by John Banville Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-241-00432-6, ISBN: 0-241-00432-2 "From John Banville, one of the world's greatest writers, comes The Blue Guitar, a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship.Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy together, simply happy.Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly, the wif ..." |
 | | Ancient Light - Penguin by John Banville Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-241-95540-6, ISBN: 0-241-95540-8 "John Banville's Ancient Light is a story of obsessive young love and the power of grief 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure why she has chosen him, he becomes obsessed and tormente ..." |
 | | The Sea by John Banville Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2006 by Vintage International ISBN-13: 978-0-330-44273-2, ISBN: 0-330-44273-2 "Unusual book" |
 | | Shroud(Reprint) by John Banville Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72530-2, ISBN: 0-375-72530-X "One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton’s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville’s masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from its conflagrations, with the wounds to prove it. And everything about him is a lie. Now those lies have been unrav ..." |
 | | Eclipse(Reprint) A Novel by John Banville Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72529-6, ISBN: 0-375-72529-6 "In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real.When renowned actor Alexander Cleave was a boy living in a large house with his widowed mother and various itinerant lodgers, he encountered a striking ..." |
 | | Mefisto(Updated) by John Banville Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1993 by Minerva ISBN-13: 978-0-7493-9716-6, ISBN: 0-7493-9716-0 |
 | | The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, Joel Rotenberg, John Banville Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2005 by Nyrb Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-120-2, ISBN: 1-59017-120-9 "Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here―fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English―propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and ..." |
 | | Snow The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller by John Banville Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2021 by Faber, London ISBN-13: 978-0-571-36270-7, ISBN: 0-571-36270-2 "Een protestantse politieman uit Dublin wordt in de winter van 1957 naar het Ierse platteland gestuurd vanwege de brute moord op een katholieke priester, maar hij wordt in zijn onderzoek van alle kanten tegengewerkt." |
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