The Book of Evidence by John Banville
The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of Lolita * Observer *
The Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within. Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people’s souls. -- Don DeLillo, author of Underworld, Cosmopolis and Mao II
One of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction. * London Review of Books *
Remarkable. . . If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre. -- Ruth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford series
The Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within. Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people’s souls. -- Don DeLillo, author of Underworld, Cosmopolis and Mao II
One of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction. * London Review of Books *
Remarkable. . . If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre. -- Ruth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford series
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other highly acclaimed books include Nightspawn, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976), Kepler (which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981), The Newton Letter, Mefisto, Ghosts, Athena, The Untouchable, Eclipse, Shroud and the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330371872 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330371878 |
| Title | The Book of Evidence |
| Author | John Banville |
| Series | Frames |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2010-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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