The Untouchable (Paperback, New edition)

The narrator of this slippery fiction is an etiolated, disgraced former curator of the Queen's pictures at Buckingham Palace. As the novel opens he has been betrayed. His secret life is laid out in the tabloids for all to gaze upon; but this version too is revealed as a superficial construction. Even the most straightforward life contains its shadowy recesses, duplicities and evasions - and the life of Victor Maskell has been far from straightforward. Bollinger Bolshevism at Cambridge in the 1930s, wartime espionage, a life of denial lived at the heart of the Establishment. Banville, the author of The Book of Evidence, knows that the most treacherous enemies within are not political but metaphysical. He writes, 'everything was itself and at the same time something else'. This subtle and beautifully written book draws out the hidden truths behind the statement. (Kirkus UK)

Examines the lives of the Cambridge spies, and in particular Anthony Blunt. The story is told by Blunt, in the form of a journal which starts on the "first day of the new life". The author uses the "secret life" as a way to explore the darker realms of the 20th century and its hidden minds.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2010
First published:	1998
Authors:	John Banville
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	404
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-330-33932-2
Languages:	English
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > Espionage & spy thriller Promotions
LSN:	0-330-33932-X
Barcode:	9780330339322

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