The Infinities

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• White and Black Banville

  Chekhov used to say that one had to be a god to distinguish between success and failure. While John Banville has won Britain’s major literary awards—the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Doctor Copernicus in 1976 and the Guardian Fiction Prize for ... (read full critics)

   published on Thu, 25 Nov 2010

• THE INFINITIES by John Banville

  Review by Doug Bruns (FEB 28, 2010) Where have all the gods gone? Hermes, Pan, Zeus and the group? We haven’t heard from them in a very long time. But wait, maybe we have, perhaps we have met them, dined with them, slept with them (that Zeus is quite ... (read full critics)

  mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

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  stylish writing, and erudite too, but a chillness à la "last year in marienbad" wafts through this book: yet life and death and pain and longing and remorse are at he core of it. oh, and i am still wondering why the greek deities were involved in this.

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• English Books
• Others 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0330510886
• ISBN-13: 9780330510882
• Pub date: Sep 01, 2009
• Also available as: eBook

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