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One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence, for many years art Continue
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lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010
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The Double Life
John Banville occupies a very definite and indeed almost unique place among contemporary novelists. He is not fashionable. Indeed he disregards fashion, even the extent to which most novelists, however independent in their natures and talents, keep a ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 384 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0679767479
- ISBN-13: 9780679767473
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jun 30, 1998
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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| 9780679767473 | Paperback | $13.95 | $11.92 | bn.com |
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| $15.00 | $9.99 | The Book Depository | ||
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This ought to be a good novel, for it is by a good writer and deals intelligently with a bit of British history that continues to interest us. And it certainly gives pleasure; so it seems a shade ungrateful to be asking what’s wrong with it. Is this ... (read full critics)