Overview
""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 community's 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.
Full Product Details
Author: John Banville
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Imprint: Hanover Square Press
Edition: Reissue ed.
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 10.40cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 16.80cm
Weight: 0.113kg
ISBN: 9781335013330
ISBN 10: 1335013334
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"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 ""[Banville's] books are like baroque cathedrals."" --Paris Review ""One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty."" --USA TODAY"
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 ""[Banville's] books are like baroque cathedrals."" --Paris Review ""One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty."" --USA TODAY
Author Information
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, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.
