Ghosts (Paperback, New edition)

Seven tourists arrive at an island house shared by a professor with a mysterious past, his helper of almost Igorian dimensions, and a murderer who has recently been released from prison. The consciousness of the murderer/narrator reveals a state between life and death, an absence of personal or emotional reality, which acts as the protagonist's antidote to the bloody physicality of The Book of Evidence. Awakening the murderer from this purgatory, Banville writes with the majestic prose and command of language for which he is so acclaimed, but it is his integration of philosophy and physicality, the grand thought not far removed from the whiff of ammonia, that makes him a great writer. (Kirkus UK)

The second volume in the Freddie Montgomery trilogy. An unnamed murderer has served his time in prison, then comes to live on a sparsely populated island with the enigmatic Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic companion, Licht. A party of castaways then arrives, with uneasy results.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Frames
Release date:	March 2010
Authors:	John Banville
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	256
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-330-37185-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-330-37185-1
Barcode:	9780330371858

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