The Singularities

John Banville

The Singularities

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'This novel is essence of Banville ... a career summation' Daily Telegraph

Felix Mordaunt, recently released from prison, steps from a flashy red sports car onto the estate of his youth. But there is a new family living in the drafty old house: descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley. Felix 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...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Banville

William John Banville is the multi-award winning Irish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter from Wexford in Ireland.

He is known for his highly stylistic, philosophical literary fiction and historical novels, often focusing on memory, perception, and the nature of art. His was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in both 1989 with The Book of Evidence and again in 2005 with The Sea. In 2011, Banville was named the winner of the extremely prestigious Kafka Prize.

He also writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, most of which feature the character of Quirke, an Irish pathologist based in 1950s Dublin. Banville continues to write and lives in Howth Dublin.

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