John Banville

The Newton Letter (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art' - Irish Times

The third in his thematically-connected Revolutions Trilogy, The Newton Letter is an exceptional work of literature from John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.

A historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton's mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysterious occupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined histories to powerful effect. His elaborate attempts to decipher the complex web of relationships are, however, far from accurate . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780330523776
• Artikelnr.: 39884365

Autorenporträt

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.