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All Souls by John Banville

From one of the most important voices in world literature, a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.

In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply being at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Mar as demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this novel from one of the best contemporary writers (J.M. Coetzee).

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John Banville was born in the Irish town of Wexford in 1945. He has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the GuardianFiction Prize, and the Lannan Literary Award for Writing for his previous thirteen works. He is based in Dublin.

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ISBN 13 9780307950772
ISBN 10 0307950778
Title All Souls
Author John Banville
Series Vintage International
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2013-04-23
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.