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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100525655174

ISBN-139780525655176

eBay Product ID (ePID)22057244955

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Book TitleSingularities : a Novel

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicPsychological, Satire, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Banville

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight17.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-058474

Reviews"Reading John Banville is like being in the presence of a fathomlessly talented, witty, and intelligent magician--someone so captivatingly masterful at their craft, you suspect that they could make you disappear. If you want to know what I mean, read The Singularities, which proves the [Banville] deserves a summons from Stockholm . . . Time and again Banville stuns with sentences so dazzling they're like a lightning-quick boxer's jab." --Randy Rosenthal, Boston Globe "A triumphant piece of writing . . . John Banville writes prose of such luscious elegance that it's all too easy to view his work as an aesthetic project . . . Like much of his best work, [ The Singularities ] aims to both scrutinize and confront one of the central challenges of the human endeavor: how to create an accurate portrait of things . . . Exhilarating." --Leo Robson, New York Times Book Review "Gorgeously written and superbly choreographed." --Kevin Power, Irish Independent "This novel is essence of Banville . . . There is the usual sumptuous style . . . He retains a brilliant grasp of imagery . . . There is a welcome sense of playfulness . . . Banville is clearly having a lot of fun." --John Self, Daily Telegraph "A feast for Banville superfans and newbies alike, The Singularities is a multiverse triumph." --Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire (Best Books of Fall) "Banville gives readers an exquisite and mischievously voyeuristic view into the lives of others . . . Banville's crisp wit, sardonic humor, and unique style will keep readers on edge, smiling and questioning, entranced and thoroughly entertained until the very end." --George Kendall, Booklist (starred) "Banville's poetical fiction explores the implications of the theory of singularity through the human perception of memory, loss, and guilt, even as he slyly braids together characters and themes from his past novels into a meta-narrative about the haunting implications of parallel universes." -- Library Journal (starred) "An intriguing puzzle box . . . Banville seems simply to revel in the delights of creativity, piling up wordplay and allusions (to Joyce, Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Nabokov), playing the god of his literary realm, and all this with constant flashes of exquisite writing." -- Kirkus Reviews "An artful and atmospheric story of redemption . . . With penetrating psychological insight, Banville tracks the private struggles of these mismatched trespassers . . . The book boasts some of Banville's greatest prose . . . A fine addition to a brilliant body of work." -- Publishers Weekly, "Banville's poetical fiction explores the implications of the theory of singularity through the human perception of memory, loss, and guilt, even as he slyly braids together characters and themes from his past novels into a meta-narrative about the haunting implications of parallel universes." --Joshua Finnell, Library Journal (starred) "An intriguing puzzle box . . . Banville seems simply to revel in the delights of creativity, piling up wordplay and allusions (to Joyce, Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Nabokov), playing the god of his literary realm, and all this with constant flashes of exquisite writing." -- Kirkus Reviews "An artful and atmospheric story of redemption . . . With penetrating psychological insight, Banville tracks the private struggles of these mismatched trespassers . . . The book boasts some of Banville's greatest prose . . . A fine addition to a brilliant body of work." -- Publishers Weekly, "A feast for Banville superfans and newbies alike, The Singularities is a multiverse triumph." --Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire (Best Books of Fall) "Banville gives readers an exquisite and mischievously voyeuristic view into the lives of others . . . Banville's crisp wit, sardonic humor, and unique style will keep readers on edge, smiling and questioning, entranced and thoroughly entertained until the very end." --George Kendall, Booklist (starred) "Banville's poetical fiction explores the implications of the theory of singularity through the human perception of memory, loss, and guilt, even as he slyly braids together characters and themes from his past novels into a meta-narrative about the haunting implications of parallel universes." -- Library Journal (starred) "An intriguing puzzle box . . . Banville seems simply to revel in the delights of creativity, piling up wordplay and allusions (to Joyce, Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Nabokov), playing the god of his literary realm, and all this with constant flashes of exquisite writing." -- Kirkus Reviews "An artful and atmospheric story of redemption . . . With penetrating psychological insight, Banville tracks the private struggles of these mismatched trespassers . . . The book boasts some of Banville's greatest prose . . . A fine addition to a brilliant body of work." -- Publishers Weekly

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823.92

SynopsisFrom the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. "A triumphant piece of writing...Prose of such luscious elegance...Exhilarating." -- The New York Times Book Review A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car--also borrowed--onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, with their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, with the recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request. With sparkling intelligence and rapier wit, John Banville revisits some of his career's most memorable figures, in a novel as mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived. The Singularities occupies a singular space and will surely be one of his most admired works.

LC Classification NumberPR6052.A57S63 2022