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The Book of Evidence by John Banville | |
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About 90 pages (27,106 words) in 7 products |
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John Banville | | Birth Date: |
December 8, 1945 | | Nationality: |
British, Irish | | Gender: |
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 Biography of John Banville
5244 words, approx. 17.5 pages
 It would be unfair to label John Banville a "writer's writer," because it would suggest he is not a writer easily accessible to the majority of readers. Yet, there is no doubt that Banville's work has attracted much critical opinion emphasizing the autho... summary from source:
Biography of John Banville
2949 words, approx. 9.8 pages
John Banville is the most interesting and resourceful Irish novelist of his generation. A writer who has let his published work do most of his talking for him, he has done more than most of his contemporaries to challenge accepted ideas of what might con...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Book of Evidence Information
223 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish author John Banville. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38 year old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbor. Freddie is an aimless drifter,...
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 The Advocate The Law of Evidence.(Book Review)
03/01/2004: 539 words, approx. 2 pages by David Paciocco and Lee Stuesser. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2002. 494 pages, $44.95. Early in my career as a criminal lawyer, I was given a copy of McWilliams's Canadian Criminal Evidence and told: "Read this." That experience would have been more valuable and... summary from source:
The Journal of Parapsychology Best Evidence.(Book Review)
03/22/2004: 1,435 words, approx. 5 pages BEST EVIDENCE, 2nd ed., by Michael Schmicker. San Jose, CA: Writers Club Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 324. $20.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-595-21906-3. Journalist Michael Schmicker endeavors to put forth the best available evidence for a variety of phenomena of interest to parapsychologists. These...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Wendy Lesser
1,241 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Lesser discusses the narrator which appears in both The Book of Evidence and Ghosts, and asserts that, "Where the narrator in The Book of Evidence was always striving for effect, the narrator in Ghosts quietly achieves it."
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Critical Review by Erica Abeel
1,121 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Abeel asserts that in The Book of Evidence "Mr. Banville has gambled that he could write a mesmerizing tale about a monster—and he has won."
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Critical Review by James Sattler
1,094 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Sattler asserts that The Book of Evidence is about the disintegration of its protagonist Freddie Montgomery.
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