· Ghosts, by John Banville (Vintage, $11). "John Banville is an Irishman with the gift of blarney, an author who writes gloriously impossible novels that . In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today."- /5. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by .
To the Editor: Wendy Lesser, in her review of "Ghosts," by John Banville (Nov. 28), notes in passing that the book's narrator turns out to be the somehow updated murderer-protagonist of his. John Banville. John Banville is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Banville has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Booker Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. by John Banville ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 4, An eminent but broken-down art historian named Kreutzner lives in an island aerie with his strange assistant Licht—and the two one day find themselves playing host to a party of strangers who've been shipwrecked when the chartered boat they were on ran aground offshore.
Little do people know that Ghosts () is the second installment of John Banville's Freddie Montgomery trilogy. The Book of Evidence () begins the sequence, which consists of Freddie's grim and gruesome confession of the brutal murder of a maidservant who interrupted his escapade of stealing a painting. Ghosts by John Banville. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today."--Boston Globe. more.
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