SNOW
$23.58
- Mass Market Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2024
Summary
“One of the very best mysteries of this or any other year.” – Globe and Mail
“Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format… Superbly rich and sophisticated.” – New York Times Book Review
Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family.
The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781335013330 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1335013334 |
| Author: | BANVILLE JOHN |
| Publisher: | Hanover Square Press |
| Imprint: | Hanover Square Press |
| Format: | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 104mm x 168mm |
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Praise for John Banville
“John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his books whenever I need a reminder how to write a good sentence.” –R.F. Kuang
“The Irish master.” –New Yorker
“One of the best novelists in English.” –The Guardian
“John Banville deserves his Booker Prize.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A grand writer with a seductive style.” –New York Times Book Review
“Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy.” –People
“Prodigiously gifted. He cannot write an unpolished phrase.” –The Independent
“[Banville’s] books are like baroque cathedrals.” –Paris Review
“One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty.” –USA TODAY
About The Author
BANVILLE JOHN
JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the DI Quirke novels written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain’s most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.
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