Doctor Copernicus
23 September 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Banville is superb . . . there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them’ The Economist
The first in John Banville Revolutions Trilogy and winner of the James Tait...
Details
23 September 2011256 pages
9781447211778Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Banville writes novels of complex patterning, with grace, precision and timing.Guardian
With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov.Daily Telegraph
A tour de force: a fictional evocation of the great astronomer which is exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world.The Times
