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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,
Athena,
The Untouchable,
Eclipse ,
Shroud and
The Sea. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
Trade ReviewAs fascinating, complex, stimulating and energetic as any work of art . . . A work which proves Banville as a master, the artist in total control of his craft. * The Times *
John Banville’s funniest book . . . another triumph by our most outrageously inventive and daring novelist. * Sunday Independent *
Makes this astonishingly attractive novelist one of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction. * London Review of Books *
