The Book of Evidence - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:John BanvilleSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2001-06-12Pages:224
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375725234ISBN-10:375725237UPC:9780375725234Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, CrimeSize:8.02 x 5.20 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCYTM769YC
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.
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375725234ISBN-10:375725237UPC:9780375725234Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, CrimeSize:8.02 x 5.20 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCYTM769YC
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He has been the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1976), the Guardian Fiction Prize (1981), the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award (1989), and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1997). He has been both shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1989) and awarded the Man Booker Prize (2005) as well as nominated for the Man Booker International Prize (2007). Other awards include the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2013), and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014). He lives in Dublin.
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