Product Description
Guilt-plagued art historian Morrow, our narrator, is at a loose end when, separately, two people beckon him up the stairs of an empty and decrepit Dublin house. One offers work of a dubious kind; the other offers a sort of love. A novel full of the delicious sense of impending menace, Banvilles sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose will leave the reader longing for more from this consummately skilled novelist.
About the Author
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are 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 (which was filmed for Channel 4), Mefisto, The Book of Evidence (shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and winner of the 1989 Guinness Peat Aviation Award), Ghosts, The Untouchable, Eclipse , Shroud and The Sea. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
