John Banville
1) Mrs. Osmond
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
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"Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack...
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Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car—also borrowed—onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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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...
6) The sea
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents a memoir of the author's life near Dublin, a city that inspired his imagination and literary life and served as a backdrop for the dissatisfactions of adult years shaped by Dublin's cultural, political, architectural, and social history.
8) Shroud
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Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 2
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
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English
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.
10) The Untouchable
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement in the Commons, the hasty revelation of his double life of wartime espionage, his photograph is all over the papers. His disgrace is public, his position as curator of the Queen's pictures terminated. Maskell writes his own testament, in an act not unlike the restoration of one of his beloved pictures, in order for the process of verification and attribution to begin.
11) The Infinities
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Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
While old Adam Godley, a mathematical genius, lies on his deathbed, his family gathers in anticipation of his passing. His son, young Adam, is distracted by his faltering marriage to a prominent movie actress while his daughter is distraught by voices in her head. All the while, the Greek patriarchal god Zeus hovers over the family with his eyes on young Adam's wife.
12) Marlowe: a novel
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Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John Banville’s Marlowe―originally published as The Black-Eyed Blonde under the pen name Benjamin Black―the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room." ―Stephen King "It was one of those Tuesday...