The Newton Letter - Brossura

Banville, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330372351 ISBN 13: 9780330372350

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 1999

Riassunto

`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 In John Banville's The Newton Letter, 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 . . .

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Recensione

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)

Descrizione del libro

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

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• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0330372351
• ISBN 13: 9780330372350
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112