THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE
by Banville, John
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0684191806
- ISBN 13
- 9780684191805
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New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American printing. A well preserved book, text is clean and fresh, DJ has a slight closed tear at bottom edge of front panel, else Fine. "John Banville writes a dangerous and clear running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's souls. The Book of Evidence is a major new work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within."-Don DeLillo
Reviews
On Sep 12 2009, Serendipity said:
Written in precise, almost cold prose, Banville's masterpiece (and really, which of his novels isn't a masterpiece?) tells the story of Freddie Montgomery, formerly a brilliant mathematician who's fallen on hard times in the Meditteranean where he and his wife have been living, drinking with and cadging money from the local colourful ex-pat community.
In debt, Freddie returns home to Ireland and attempts to retrieve paintings his widowed mother sold to a family friend. This sets off a series of events that result in Freddie stealing a Dutch master and killing a serving-girl, before going on the run and hiding out with another old family friend, Charlie.
That bald descritpiton of the plot does nothing to describe just how wonderful this novel is: part memoir, part confession, concerned with mathematics, philosophy, the nature of evil, sex, death, and other themes Banville regularly explores.
Based in part on a real-life murder case that shocked Ireland in the 1980's and had an interesting political denouement, this novel is easily one of Banville's best. Should have won the Booker for him in 1989.
The finest fiction writer at work today.
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- BIAbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003633
- Title
- THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE
- Author
- Banville, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0684191806
- ISBN 13
- 9780684191805
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS MURDER
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