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The Sea
John Banville
Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent...... read more
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The Book of Evidence
John Banville
Freddie Montgomery returns to his native Ireland after years of irresponsible expatriate living. On a whim, he steals a painting from the home of a friend, and in the course of the...... read more
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The Untouchable
John Banville
John Banville's novel about an Englishman who was recruited to be a spy for the Soviets at Cambridge in the '30s is based on the true story of Sir Anthony Blunt. As in so much of Banville's...... read more
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Shroud
John Banville
All his life, a rude, bad-tempered old man named Axel Vander has taken delight in telling lies--particularly about his true identity, which is a secret he refuses to divulge. Then...... read more
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Birchwood.
John Banville
After years away, Gabriel Godkin returns to his family's dilapidated Irish estate and to a family torn apart by despair, bitter memories, and dark secrets that Gabriel struggles to...... read more
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Ghosts
John Banville
A boat filled with travelers goes aground on an island where an eminent art historian lives with his assistant. A mysterious stranger in their midst turns out to be the murderer -...... read more
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The Newton Letter
John Banville
A historian writing a book on Isaac Newton tries to discover the reason's for Newton's breakdown in 1693. Spending the summer in a cottage in the Irish countryside, he also becomes...... read more
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Athena
John Banville
ATHENA is John Banville's third novel featuring his witty and cynical antihero, Freddie Montgomery (here called simply Morrow), a man with a violent past and a fascination with 17th...... read more
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Eclipse
John Banville
After the death of his mother, a failed, aging actor named Alexander Cleave returns to the seaside town where he grew up and tries to come to terms with the disappointments of his...... read more
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Kepler, a Novel
John Banville
This novel, about the heroic life of Johannes Kepler, one of the great mathematicians and astronomers, is full of verbal and mathematical games. Winner of the 1981 Guardian Prize for...... read more
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The Silver Swan
John Banville
Quirke, an irascible, hard - drinking Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the beautiful young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers many things...... read more
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Prague Pictures
John Banville
Part of the Writer and the City series, John Banville's book about Prague is chatty and personal, mixing his own memories with the accounts of others, and including stories and anecdotes...... read more
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