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Birchwood

By John Banville

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‘This is one of the most startling of the century’s varied achievements in Irish writing’ Seamus Deane Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travellContinue

‘This is one of the most startling of the century’s varied achievements in Irish writing’ Seamus Deane Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travelling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that Ireland is ruined as well. Famine and unrest stalk the countryside. . . ‘Birchwood represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing: it is a novel in which history becomes a rich black comedy full of land agitation and Gothic characters; and a sense of bewilderment at the nature of the universe fills its pages’ Colm Tóibín ‘John Banville is one of the great masters of the . . . English language’ Catherine Lockerbie, Scotsman

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  • Book review: John Banville's *Birchwood*

    Birchwood John Banville Vintage Paperback 176 pages May 2007 In this very short book, perhaps better called a novella, Banville uses a modified stream-of-consciousness style that immediately picks the reader up and drops her into a complicated family ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • eBook 176 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1447211782
  • ISBN-13: 9781447211785
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Pub date: Sep 23, 2011
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
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