John Banville
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born
December 08, 1945
gender
male
place of birth
Wexford, Ireland
genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
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The Sea by John Banville avg rating 3.35 — 1,879 ratings — published 2005 17 editions |
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The Book of Evidence by John Banville avg rating 3.88 — 337 ratings — published 1989 14 editions |
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The Untouchable by John Banville avg rating 3.95 — 249 ratings — published 1997 15 editions |
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Shroud by John Banville avg rating 3.53 — 108 ratings — published 2002 10 editions |
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Athena by John Banville avg rating 3.79 — 85 ratings — published 1995 10 editions |
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Doctor Copernicus by John Banville avg rating 3.66 — 83 ratings — published 1976 11 editions |
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Ghosts by John Banville avg rating 3.79 — 80 ratings — published 1993 7 editions |
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Mefisto by John Banville avg rating 3.85 — 61 ratings — published 1986 8 editions |
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Eclipse: A Novel by John Banville avg rating 3.58 — 65 ratings — published 2000 16 editions |
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The Newton Letter by John Banville avg rating 3.70 — 56 ratings — published 1982 10 editions |
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"Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self."
— John Banville (The Sea)
— John Banville (The Sea)
"When I was a child and heard about angels, I was both frightened and fascinated by the thought of these enormous, invisible presences in our midst. I conceived of them not as white-robed androgynes with yellow locks and thick gold wings, which was how my friend Matty Wilson had described them to me--Matty was the predecessor of all sorts of arcane knowledge--but as big, dark, blundering men, massive in their weightlessness, given to pranks and ponderous play, who might knock you over, or break you in half, without meaning to. When a child from Miss Molyneaux's infant school in Carrickdrum fell under the hoofs of a dray-horse one day and was trampled to death,I, a watchful six year old, knew who was to blame; I pictured his guardian angel standing over the child's crushed form with his big hands helplessly extended, not sure whether to be contrite or to laugh."
— John Banville (The Untouchable)
— John Banville (The Untouchable)
"These days I must take the world in samll and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere."
— John Banville (The Sea)
— John Banville (The Sea)
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