Birchwood
Author(s): John Banville
'This is one of the most startling of the century's varied achievements in Irish writing' - Seamus Deane. Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travelling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that Ireland is ruined as well. Famine and unrest stalk the countryside...'Birchwood represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing: it is a novel in which history becomes a rich black comedy full of land agitation and Gothic characters; and a sense of bewilderment at the nature of the universe fills its pages' - Colm Toibin. 'John Banville is one of the great masters of the ...English language' - Catherine Lockerbie, "Scotsman".
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.125
- : 01 April 1999
- : 197mm X 130mm X 10mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 176
- : New edition
- : Paperback
- : John Banville