John Banville

John Banville is the author of more than twenty novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Shroud, and Eclipse. Critics have compared Banville to masters as varied as James, Proust, Beckett, and Nabokov. He has won many awards, including the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. A gorgeous meditation on love, loss, and memory, The Sea was also chosen as a New York Times Notable Book and was named one of the best books of its year by the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among others. Banville lives in Ireland and also writes mysteries under the name of Benjamin Black.

talk on The Sea: Monday, March 25
John Banville visit: Wednesday, March 27

Program Room of the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collection Library. (Enter through the Thomas Cooper Library.) (MDGentleReader)… (more)

In his erudite, intricate, sixteenth novel, the Man Booker-Award-winning author of The Sea returns to several characters he created in Shroud and Eclipse. Alexander Cleave, mourning the death of his troubled daughter, has little to look forward to and seems set to live in the past—in particular, his fifteenth year, and the affair he had with his friend’s mother—when his acting career is suddenly revived with a major role in a film called The Invention of the Past.

Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

John Banville; John Gray; Edwin Frank

Georges Simenon was not only a popular and prolific novelist but also a visionary writer of modern life. His short romans durs, the “hard” or “tough” novels he set apart from his crowd-pleasing Maigret mysteries, are perceptive, nervewracking and unsentimental explorations of the crooked passages of the mind and heart. John Banville will discuss the singular art of this powerful and still under-appreciated writer with John Gray, for whom Simenon “achieved the rare feat of entertaining us with the truth”. Edwin Frank, editor of the NYRB Classics series which is republishing Simenon, will be in the chair. (FlossieT)… (more)

John Banville , The Sea.

EAGLE HARBOR READERS CIRCLE
Our store-sponsored book group meets in the bookstore on the first Tuesday of each month at 7pm to discuss the best in fiction and nonfiction, with the occasional classic thrown in for fun. Newcomers and drop-ins are always welcome!
May 6th: Immediately following Banville's visit to Seattle Arts & Lectures on April 30th, we will discuss his luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. (booksense)… (more)