Q is for Quirke
Q is for Quirke An old post about Benjamin Black, John Banville‘s crime-writing alter-ego.
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Teaser Tuesday: THE BLUE GUITAR
The silence was the thing that struck me first. It settled on the house like a hard frost and under it everything went frozen and stiff.
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Early reviews of “The Blue Guitar” indicate that Banville will once again bring readers into a story of memory and regret narrated by a narcissistic but self-loathing and highly unreliable narrator.
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As well as being excellently-written in carefully chosen prose, they are also examinations of some of Ireland’s harder truths: the unfettered power of the Church; the Magdalene Laundries; the Industrial Schools; the engrained prejudice against Travellers.
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Some won’t like the Indonesian martial-arts thrillers, but If you are in any way a fan of films in which tiny men do seriously violent things to each other, then I heartily recommend them.
Read more "I’m Stuck In The Middle With You, So Could You Please Take The Hammer Claws Out Of My Skull?"Blinded By The Light. “Ancient Light” by John Banville
As with much of Banville, there is fine attention to the feel and smell of things; “the sullen, bitter reek” of whiskey; and he has the gift of fully conjuring people, places and events with a few deft strokes.
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He is a master craftsman who writes shimmering prose, but his protagonists are the sorts that you would probably wish to avoid in real life: self-obsessed, self-deluded, duplicitous and amoral men with shameful secrets to hide.
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Years ago he signed my copy of Mefisto, and I see his distinctive handwriting hasn’t changed. Are there any graphologists out there who would care to decipher his personality from his elegant copperplate?
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By Niall McArdle WWW Wednesdays is a meme hosted by Should be Reading It’s easy to play along. Just answer three questions: • What are you currently reading? • What did you recently finish reading? • What do you think you’ll read next? • What are you currently reading? Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell • […]
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Banville’s mordant sense of humour usually veers towards the cynical, the morbid, and the sad bewilderment of the world. But here he presents us with a narrator who is quite happily astonished by what he sees.
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