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The Book of Evidence & The Sea
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by John Banville
Subgenres:
- Psychological Fiction,
- Irish Fiction,
- Memory and Identity
This book is for you if you're into...
- Unreliable narrators wrestling with memory and guilt
- Lush, lyrical prose that turns every page into a mood
- Psychological drama set in moody Irish landscapes
The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989, and The Sea, which won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists—washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murder (The Book of Evidence), and recently widowed art historian Max Morden, who has returned to a sleepy seaside boarding house to relive the events of his first adolescent awakenings (The Sea).
With spellbinding virtuosity, Banville piles ambiguity upon ambiguity to construct tense tales of sex, betrayal and self-deception, which keep us turning the page, while questioning our own certainties about memory and identity.
In both works, the acclaimed Irish novelist is revealed at his masterful best, conjuring dark wit, suspense and drama from the stunning lyrical beauty of his near-perfect prose.
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