Book cover for Birchwood

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06 August 2010
176 pages
9780330372329
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

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.
John Banville is one of the great masters of the . . . English language.