· ATHENA. by John Banville ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 9, Ireland's Banville (Ghosts, , etc.) is deservedly known as an inventive stylist and erudite novelist. His plots, though, and — as in this case — his language sometimes relish ambiguity and richness over the simpler pull of narrative. Banville introduces us to Morrow, a clerkish, middle-age type straight out of T.S. Eliot or www.doorway.ru: Kirkus Reviews. · Athena by John Banville. Paperback $ Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store Check Availability at Nearby Stores. Sign in to Purchase Instantly Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Athena is a novel with all of Thomas Pynchon's ambition though a fraction his impenetrability. Banville's unreliable (and self-deprecating) first-person narrator is a treat who, despite most of his confessions coming parenthetically, fills parts of this novel with pleasant surprises/5(39).
John Banville is the greatest writer drawing breath today. The prose of Athena is utterly intoxicating, the verbal equivalent of a cask strength single malt. A seamless companion piece to A Book of Evidence, and though the described paintings and their fathers are fictitious, the strokes of the Brueghels and Vermeer flow through every passage. Athena. by John Banville. Vintage International. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it. Athena is the third in a loose trilogy by John Banville which began with The Book of Evidence () and which follows the Mr. Morrow of Athena in his edgy wanderings through the realm of art and.
Athena John Banville, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Alias Benjamin Black: John Banville; OTHER BOOKS. John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in He has been the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (), the Guardian Fiction Prize (), the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award (), and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (). Los Angeles Times – 02 July In his 10th novel, John Banville returns to the protagonist of his eighth (“The Book of Evidence”), a sad, homicidal monologuist who tells and tells and tells us his troubles. Banville is an elegant, witty writer whose prose is intelligent, deft, often gripping. Freddy Montgomery, the first and, really, only person in “Athena,” is endowed, for all his bumbling, fumbling ineptitude, with his author’s great gifts.
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