John Banville
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
The book of evidence: Freddie Montgomery is an aimless, eccentric, and highly cultured man whose arrest for the murder of a servant girl prompts him to offer the reader an extended testimony of the the circumstances that led to and (in his chillingly amoral mind) justified his grisly crime. The sea: Follows retired art historian Max Morden to the seaside town where he spent his childhood summers. Max is grieving the loss of his wife, Anna, but returning...