Enjoyable read

by screwdskull on March 7, 2008

This is such a beautifully written book, that I felt the urge to read it out loud. It is simply poetry in prose form. Banville is as renowned for his prose as for his poetry and in this book there has been a successful conversion of the two.
Each word so carefully chosen and such an economy of phrasing.
The story itself is very touching and definitely left me feeling for the characters I only briefly got to know.