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    The Book of Evidence

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    Author John Banville
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    $18.00 US
    Knopf | Vintage
    5.2"W x 8"H x 0.6"D   | 8 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Jun 12, 2001 | 224 Pages | 9780375725234
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    MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the Booker Prize winner of The Sea comes “an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell" (The New York Times Book Review) about the dark confession of an improbable murderer. 

    “Ireland’s finest contemporary novelist.” —The Economist

    Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.
    • FINALIST | 1989
      Booker Prize
    “Here is an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Ireland’s finest contemporary novelist.” —The Economist

    “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

    "Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of Lolita." —Observer

    "One of the most important writers now at work in English—a key thinker, in fact, in fiction." —London Review of Books

    "Remarkable ... If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre." —Ruth Rendell
    © Douglas Banville
    JOHN BANVILLE, the author of seventeen novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He lives in Dublin. View titles by John Banville

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    MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the Booker Prize winner of The Sea comes “an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell" (The New York Times Book Review) about the dark confession of an improbable murderer. 

    “Ireland’s finest contemporary novelist.” —The Economist

    Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.

    Awards

    • FINALIST | 1989
      Booker Prize

    Praise

    “Here is an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Ireland’s finest contemporary novelist.” —The Economist

    “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

    "Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of Lolita." —Observer

    "One of the most important writers now at work in English—a key thinker, in fact, in fiction." —London Review of Books

    "Remarkable ... If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre." —Ruth Rendell

    Author

    © Douglas Banville
    JOHN BANVILLE, the author of seventeen novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He lives in Dublin. View titles by John Banville

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