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Told with lyrical prose, John Banville's Birchwood is the elegiac story of the aristocratic decline of an eccentric family riddled with dark secrets.
Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travelling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that famine and unrest stalk the countryside, and Ireland is ruined too.
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Birchwood represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing: it is a novel in which history becomes a rich black comedy full of land agitation and Gothic characters; and a sense of bewilderment at the nature of the universe fills its pages. Author: Colm Tóibín
John Banville is one of the great masters of the . . . English language. Author: Catherine Lockerbie Source: Scotsman
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‘This is one of the most startling of the century’s varied achievements in Irish writing’ Seamus Deane
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0330372327
- ISBN 13 9780330372329
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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