The Book of Evidence
de John Banville
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375725237
- ISBN 13
- 9780375725234
- Librería
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Vintage, June 2001. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good.
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El Sep 12 2009, Serendipity dijo:
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Organic Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 41886
- Título
- The Book of Evidence
- Autor
- John Banville
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Used - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0375725237
- ISBN 13
- 9780375725234
- Editorial
- Vintage
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- June 2001
- Páginas
- 219
Términos de venta
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Organic Books
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Sobre Organic Books
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