Name: The Singularities
Price: 16.73 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: John Banville
ISBN: 9780525564348

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Banville

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780525564348

Synopsis "The Singularities"

From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. "A triumphant piece of writing...Prose of such luscious elegance...Exhilarating." --The New York Times Book Review A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car--also borrowed--onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, with their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, with the recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request. With sparkling intelligence and rapier wit, John Banville revisits some of his career's most memorable figures, in a novel as mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived. The Singularities occupies a singular space and will surely be one of his most admired works.

John Banville

(Author)

View Author's Page

John William Banville es un novelista irlandés nacido en Wexford en 1945, cuya prosa ha sido descrita como precisa, lírica y profundamente reflexiva. A lo largo de su carrera ha trabajado también como periodista, y bajo el seudónimo Benjamin Black ha escrito novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el patólogo Quirke. Sus historias tienden a explorar temas como la pérdida, la obsesión y la memoria, muchas veces con un tono existencial y filosófico.

Banville ha sido ampliamente premiado: ganó el Premio Booker» en 2005 por su novela The Sea, recibió el Premio Franz Kafka en 2011 y el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 2014. Entre sus obras más destacadas están El Mar (The Sea), Ancient Light y la novela corta The Newton Letter, que muestran su dominio de la introspección y de la narrativa reflexiva.

See less