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The Newton Letter John Banville

The Newton Letter By John Banville

The Newton Letter by John Banville


Summary

From the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea.

The Newton Letter Summary

The Newton Letter by John Banville

'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art' - Irish Times

The third in his thematically-connected Revolutions Trilogy, The Newton Letter is an exceptional work of literature from John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.

A historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton's mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysterious occupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined histories to powerful effect. His elaborate attempts to decipher the complex web of relationships are, however, far from accurate . . .

The Newton Letter Reviews

How is one to convey half-adequately that Banville's The Newton Letter is something out of the ordinary? * Sunday Times *
Banville's prose has a dazzling amplitude and resource . . . a novelist of international calibre. * Boston Globe *
Very precise and evocative . . . full of teasing alignments and variations. * Financial Times *
A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art . . . The Newton Letter gave this reader such pleasurable excitement that he found it impossible to concentrate on anything until he had read it again to make sure that it seemed as good on the second reading. It did * Irish Times *

About John Banville

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.

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GOR012929567
9780330372350
0330372351
The Newton Letter by John Banville
Used - Like New
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20100806
112
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