Ghosts, John Banville
Ghosts, John Banville
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Ghosts

Author: John Banville

Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/21/2023

Synopsis

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence.

"A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today." —The Boston Globe

About John Banville

JOHN BANVILLE, the author of twenty novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He lives in Dublin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

Everything in this world resembles something else so Ghosts vaguely echoes The Tempest by William Shakespeare. And the island is something between Aeaea – Circe’s home isle, and the Land of Nod – the place of Cain’s exile. Extraordinary the look of things at dusk then, it might have been another......more

Goodreads review by Asghar

Some people are ghosts, even when they are alive. This is what makes this a horror story; people. When it is the usual stream of consciousness fare that it is. Who writes more beautiful prose than Banville? Absolutely no one. This isn't actually a ghost story, of course. But if you love rare words an......more

Goodreads review by Ian

CRITIQUE: The Return of a Questionable Narrator "Ghosts" is a worthy sequel to "The Book of Evidence". John Banville evidently decided that he hadn't finished with the character, Freddie Montgomery, and the intrigues that might surround him in the parallel worlds in which he lived. Indeed, Banville......more

Awards

  • DUBLIN Literary Award
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