Book cover for Eclipse

Eclipse

Synopsis

Details

23 September 2011
448 pages
9781447211761
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

This unsparing, compassionate, humane book demonstrates again that Banville is in a class of his own.
A contemporary fable of piercing sadness and melancholy beauty. . . This poetic novel deals with archetypal themes as well as painful truths about parental inadequacy and the limitations of love.
In Eclipse Banville has created another important, challenging fiction. The book is ornately written, heartless in an honest fashion, profoundly interrogative of ideas of identity and, above all, spectacularly beautiful. It is, in a way that so many contemporary novels are not, a work of art.