PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed novels including The Book of Evidence, The Infinities and The Newton Letter. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation -- Allan Massie * Scotsman * You can smell and feel and see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art, and I’ll bet it will still be read and admired in seventy-five years. -- Rick Gekoski * The Times * Poetry seems to come easily to Banville. There is so much to applaud in this book that it deserves more than one reading. * Literary Review * A brilliant, sensuous, discombobulating novel. * Spectator *
