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6 giorni fa · It gets me every time. I’m still glad I read Eclipse, and I’ll still read more John Banville novels in future. There’s nothing better than spending a few hundred pages in the company of a master prose stylist. Thanks to Kim and Cathy for prompting me to read this novel as part of their reading project, “A Year With John Banville“.
1 giorno fa · Eclipse, John Banville’s novel from 2000, starts as many of his novels do, with a middle-aged man in self-imposed exile looking back on the life he has lived. The narrator of Eclipse , Alexander Cleave, is a renowned classical actor who has recently corpsed during a first-night speech and retreated, reputation ruined, to live in his dilapidated childhood home by the sea.
4 giorni fa · Dove è sempre notte di John Banville, romanzo giallo edito da Guanda. QLibri presenta la scheda del libro e le recensioni degli utenti con i voti su stile, contenuto, piacevolezza.
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3 giorni fa · Time travel in novels, short stories and on the stage. This list describes novels and short stories in which time travel is central to the plot or the premise of the work. Works created prior to the 18th century are listed in Time travel § History of the time travel concept .
4 giorni fa · The fashion in which John Banville draws the reader into this hypnotic and disturbing world is non pareil, and the very complex relationships between his brilliantly delineated cast of characters are orchestrated with a master's skill.
2 giorni fa · A small collection of poems, Reading to You, appeared in 1982 with Station Hill Press. She completed her PhD in English at Columbia in 1986. Her dissertation on Charles Dickens, Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend, is an exploration of language and identity in the novel, with particular emphasis on Dickens's metaphors of fragmentation, his use of pronouns, and their relation to a ...
4 giorni fa · Between Earth and Sky is a fantasy novel series by American writer Rebecca Roanhorse. It currently comprises three novels: Black Sun (2020), Fevered Star (2022), and Mirrored Heavens (2024). It is an epic fantasy series inspired by various pre-Columbian American cultures.
