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Buy this book on-line BANVILLE**, JOHN: : Ghosts. ** [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.SECKER & WARBURG,1993. ISBN 0436199912.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[2nd novel in his 'Frames' trilogy,with 'The Book of Evidence' and 'Athena',the other two novels.Banville was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1989 for 'The Book of Evidence', and eventually won the prize in 2005,with 'The Sea'.] NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,neat,black ink,handwritten author's signature to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,protected,author colour portrait painting illustrated upper wrap,critics' reviews to rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges or corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - basically the only fault. Publisher's bright,unblemished,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate pale blue/grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,3-244pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,4 Pts and 2pp blanks to rear.
A nameless man,a man with a past,nursing his guilt for a nameless crime,waits on an island for the god of redemption to arrive.What comes instead is a strange band of castaways who play out an imitation of life: the life that he forfeited years before.Their loves,fears,regrets and false hopes remind him of what he has lost, while one of their party - the mysterious Felix - reminds him of the past he wants to forget.The twin shadows of the guilty man and his unwelcome visitor cast a long chill over the Arcadian isle - suffered as it is with the rosy pinks of Watteau and the timeless spirit of comedia
dell'arte - until the novel's painted backdrops begin to roll away and reveal the simple, terrible drama of crime and its punishment. Invoking all lost souls and every enchanted island,the book is an extraordinary balance of gaiety and menace - a dark comedy shot through with anguish,a dream of passion and loss.The record of a tormented journey back to the 'human world',of despair assuaged by art and imagination,'Ghosts' is a theatrical and exquisitely written fiction by one of our finest living writers.
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