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theme). The writer has suggested that those who wish to sample his work begin with this work ("It's pretty well all there. And it's short.")
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who rents a rural retreat in the south of Ireland to write an in-depth treatment of an obscure and disturbing letter Newton sent in 1693 to
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The book opens with: "Words fail me." It follows the adventures of an aspiring biographer of
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has stated that the book, among others by Banville, ought to have won the
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is the third of Banville's "scientific tetralogy" (preceded by
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directed in 1984 a film adaptation for the British broadcaster
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Index


Secker & Warburg
1982
novella
John Banville
Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier
John Hawkes
The Blood Oranges
unreliable narrator
The New York Times
Colm Tóibín
Booker Prize
Secker & Warburg
David R. Godine
Panther Books
Picador
Kevin Billington
Channel 4
Reflections
Gabriel Byrne
Harriet Walter
Fionnula Flanagan
Isaac Newton
John Locke
Goethe
Elective Affinities
Doctor Copernicus
Kepler
Faust

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