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" Here is an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell." - "The New York Times Book Review
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" Ireland' s finest contemporary novelist." - "The Economist
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" The Book of Evidence is a major new work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within." - Don DeLillo
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" Ireland' s finest contemporary novelist." - "The Economist
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" The Book of Evidence is a major new work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within." - Don DeLillo
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The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Banville writes exquisitely. The sentences are invariably arresting and his use of language and imagery is magnificent. It's a very dark novel; so dark that I had to put it down for a few days at a time in order for the enormity and the relentless misery of the protagonist's situation to sink in. But if you allow yourself time for his prose to sink in, you will return to Banville's work again and again. Once finished, it's worth reading all over again. A very compelling novel indeed.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Though I'm loath to use words such as masterpiece about anything at all, it seems reasonable to resort to hyperbole here if only to get peoples attention and earn Mr. Banville some money. If you've read anything by this author then you'll have a pretty good idea where this novel is going but the themes and use of language are here employed with a proximity to objective, Schillerian perfection never matched before or since. This is one of the very few books I continually foist upon all my friends in the hope that they will recognise its wonderful malignancy and sour humour and palpable, impressionist nuance. No-one gets it. Maybe it's an Irish thing. Guardian reviews constantly cite Banville's extrordinary use of language but this (and all the others, although Ghosts is probably taking advantage of the publisher's flushed benevolence) is more than an excercise or dank adventure in prose. It is seeped in the traditions of Joyce, Beckett, Nabakov, your own life. Start here and then trace the lives of the characters through the oblique variations in subsequent novels. The lives of the Enlightenment physicists are gorgeous too, Kepler in particular.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
You must read this book Mr Banville out shines himself each time a read a book written by him i hated finising this book. I wanted it to go on and on. I cannot rate this book high enough at last we have writer equal to Yeats Synge and many more!!
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Hung jury.
This book has excited great enthusiasm from reviewers but for me the parts - or at least some of them - seem greater than the whole. Read more
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Brilliant
This is shockingly good writing. I had to slow myself down reading it to savour every page.
Published on 4 Feb 2008 by Flossy Flong
A dark, gritty and compelling read.
This is my second Banville, after `The Untouchable', and third if I include `Christine Falls' written under his nom de plume - Benjamin Black. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2007 by MrChance
A different opinion...
I'm going to get burned for this review, but...
I hated it. The characters were an inexplicable mix of misfits and pariahs and Banville's contempt for ordinary folk is... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2006 by MrShev
A modern classic
John Banville is one of the best writers of the twentieth (and hopefully twenty-first!) century. Freddie Montgomery is a monster, but Banville somehow succeeds in winning the... Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2002
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Published on 7 Dec 2000 by chadwick42083@cs.com
Banville doesn't get half of the kudos he deserves!
All his books are magnificient, of the 20 or so contemporary writers I read during the last year Banville is the one who will still be read in a hundred years.
Published on 5 Dec 2000
Dark yarn entices and grips
Although I didn't think this book was quite as good as the first reviewer did, I nevertheless enjoyed it immensely. Read more
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