The Infinities

The writer of the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, John Banville is one of the most critically-acclaimed writers of his generation. The Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father's bedside. Adam, the eldest, and Petra, only nineteen, find relations with their stepmother, Ursula, and their dying father, are as strained as ever. Adam's relationship with his wife, Helen, seems too on the brink of collapse and Petra, fragile and deeply troubled, finds deepest relief in her own pain. In electrifying prose, Banville captures the aching intensity, magic and enchantment, of a single midsummer's day in Arden.

About the author

John Banville, geboren 1945 in Wexford, Irland, gehört zu den bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Autoren Irlands. Sein umfangreiches literarisches Werk wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. 2011 mit dem Franz-Kafka-Preis, 2013 mit dem Österreichischen Staatspreis und 214 mit dem Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis. John Banville lebt und arbeitet in Dublin.

Product details

• Authors: John Banville
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2009
• EAN: 9780330510882
• ISBN: 978-0-330-51088-2
• No. of pages: 299
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)