Description
Book SynopsisJohn Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book,
Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other 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,
The Book of Evidence,
Ghosts,
Athena,
The Untouchable,
Shroud and
The Sea. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
Trade ReviewThis unsparing, compassionate, humane book demonstrates again that Banville is in a class of his own. * Spectator *
A contemporary fable of piercing sadness and melancholy beauty. . . This poetic novel deals with archetypal themes as well as painful truths about parental inadequacy and the limitations of love. * Sunday Telegraph *
In
Eclipse Banville has created another important, challenging fiction. The book is ornately written, heartless in an honest fashion, profoundly interrogative of ideas of identity and, above all, spectacularly beautiful. It is, in a way that so many contemporary novels are not, a work of art. * Observer *
