The Book of Evidence
by Banville, John
Published by : Vintage Books (New York) Physical details: 219 Pages 20x13 cm | PB ISBN:9780375725234. Year: 2001| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | 823.914 B212B 2001 (Browse shelf) | Available | 35191 |
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.
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