Description: SNOW by BANVILLE JOHN "One of the very best mysteries of this or any other year." --Globe and Mail "Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format... Superbly rich and sophisticated." --New York Times Book Review Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford--flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer--faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in the tight-knit community he begins to investigate. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the communitys secrets, like the snowfall itself, threaten to obliterate everything. Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is "the Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best. FORMAT Mass Market Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the DI Quirke novels written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spains most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin. Review Praise for John Banville "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his books whenever I need a reminder how to write a good sentence." --R.F. Kuang "The Irish master." --New Yorker "One of the best novelists in English." --The Guardian "John Banville deserves his Booker Prize." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "A grand writer with a seductive style." --New York Times Book Review "Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy." --People "Prodigiously gifted. He cannot write an unpolished phrase." --The Independent "[Banvilles] books are like baroque cathedrals." --Paris Review "One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty." --USA TODAY Details ISBN1335013334 Short Title SNOW R/E Pages 336 Publisher Hanover Square Press Language English ISBN-10 1335013334 ISBN-13 9781335013330 Format Mass Market Paperback Author BANVILLE JOHN Edition Description Reissue ed. Year 2024 Publication Date 2024-09-24 Imprint Hanover Square Press Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161505629;
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