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Birchwood (Paperback)

by John Banville (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (9 April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330372327
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330372329
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 328,257 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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John Banville's black comedy of life in a disaster-ridden house on a large Irish estate.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful writing from first page to last!, 10 Oct 2009
This book has very clear echoes of Proust, both in the writing style and in the sense of nostalgia that pervades the story of aristocratic decline. The references are clear and deliberate - in the very first chapter, Banville's narrator refers to his fragments of memory as "madeleines" and talks of his "search for time misplaced."

Birchwood is a book that I thoroughly enjoyed. While the writing style is reminiscent of Proust in its dreamy beauty, it clips along at a much faster pace, as does the sometimes bizarre plot of childhood resentments, exploding grandmothers, running off to join the circus, searching for a long-lost sister, etc. Also there's a detachment from the destruction that comes to Birchwood, a sense that it's inevitable and even deserved, a strong context of the social unrest in Ireland at the time.

The writing was brilliant from the first page to the last, and made me want to read a lot more of Banville's work.
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