| The Book of Evidence | |
 Cover of the original edition |
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| Author | John Banville |
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| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Vintage Books at Random House |
| Publication date | 1989 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-375-72523-7 |
The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish author John Banville. John Banville (born 1945 is an Irish Novelist and Journalist. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a Book by the nature of its binding. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world John Banville (born 1945 is an Irish Novelist and Journalist. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38 year old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbor. Freddie is an aimless drifter, and though he is a perceptive observer of himself and his surroundings, he is largely amoral.
The end of the novel makes it unclear whether anything Freddie has said is true. When asked by the inspector how much of it is true, Freddie responds, "True, Inspector? All of it. None of it. Only the shame. "
The Book of Evidence won Ireland's Guinness Peat Aviation Award in 1989, and was short-listed for Britain's Booker Prize. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length Novel In reviewing the book, Publishers Weekly compared Banville's writing to that of Albert Camus and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Albert Camus ( (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 was an Algerian born French Author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, The writing style continues Banville's attempt to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has". [1]
References
- ^ Steinberg, Sybil "Who Is John Banville?". Publishers Weekly, July, 1995. Retrieved on 21 January 2007. Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
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