Книга: Banville John «The Sea»

The Sea

When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years, shaping everything that was to follow.

Издательство: "Picador" (2013)

ISBN: 9781447249498

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Banville, John

▪ Irish writer
pseudonym  Benjamin Black 
born Dec. 8, 1945, Wexford, Ire.

      Irish novelist and journalist whose fiction is known for being referential, paradoxical, and complex.

      Banville attended St. Peter's College in Wexford, Ire. He began working in Dublin as a copy editor for the Irish Press (1969–83). He was later a copy editor (1986–88) and literary editor (1988–99) for the Irish Times.

      His first piece of fiction, Long Lankin (1970), is a series of nine episodic short stories. This work was followed by two novels: Nightspawn (1971), an intentionally ambiguous narrative, and Birchwood (1973), the story of a decaying Irish family. Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1981), and The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982) are fictional biographies based on the lives of noted scientists. These three works use scientific exploration as a metaphor to question perceptions of fiction and reality. Mefisto (1986) is written from the point of view of a character obsessed with numbers.

      The Book of Evidence (1989) is a murder mystery and the first of a trilogy centred on the character Freddie Montgomery. Ghosts (1993) and Athena (1995) completed the trilogy. The Untouchable (1997), along with Eclipse (2000) and its sequel, Shroud (2002), are novels that tell more stories of conflicted individuals. The Sea (2005), a novel that was awarded the Booker Prize, tells the story of a widowed art historian who revisits a childhood destination on the sea. Banville first used the pseudonym Benjamin Black for his crime novel Christine Falls (2006) and then its sequel, Silver Swan (2007).

      Banville's writing is experimental, challenging the conventional form of the novel. Common themes throughout his work include loss, obsession, destructive love, and the pain that accompanies freedom.

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Источник: Banville, John

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