Ebook {Epub PDF} The Book of Evidence by John Banville

 · THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE. by John Banville ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, Winner of Ireland's largest literary award for the best book of , Banville's latest is an elegantly written, often darkly comic meditation upon evil and guilt—and a great imaginative leap beyond his previous efforts (Kepler, , etc.).Author: Kirkus Reviews.  · THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE. by John Banville ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, Winner of Ireland's largest literary award for the best book of , Banville's latest is an elegantly written, often darkly comic meditation upon evil and guilt—and a great imaginative leap beyond his previous efforts (Kepler, , etc.).Author: Kirkus Reviews.  · Two essential novels from one of the most imaginative writers of our time: The Sea, winner of the Man Booker prize, and The Book of Evidence, an unforgettable literary mystery short-listed for the Booker prize. The Book of Evidence is a brilliantly disturbing portrait of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is an aimless, eccentric, and highly cultured man whose arrest for the murder of /5(19).

The Book of Evidence Paperback - J. by. John Banville (Author) › Visit Amazon's John Banville Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. John Banville (Author) out of 5 stars. ratings. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, John Banville's The Book of Evidence is a wonderfully dark, insightful and unnerving crime novel that takes us deep into the unreliable mind of an improbable murderer. Read Less. All from $ New Books from $ Used Books from $ The Book of Evidence (), a novel by Irish author John Banville, tells the story of an amoral scientist who murders a servant girl in an effort to steal a painting. The book is loosely based on the murder of a young nurse in Dublin by Malcolm Edward MacArthur. For The Book of Evidence, Banville received the Guinness Peat Aviation Award and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.

The Book of Evidence is a novel by John Banville. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a year-old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbour. Freddie is an aimless drifter, and though he is a perceptive observer of himself and his surroundings, he is largely amoral. Many of the characters in The Book of Evidence appear in the sequel Ghosts. About The Book of Evidence. John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in He is the author of thirteen previous novels including The Book of Evidence, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.