The Newton Letter
19 August 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art' – Irish Times
The third in his thematically-connected Revolutions Trilogy, The Newton Letter is an exceptional work of literature from John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.
A historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and...
Details
19 August 2011112 pages
9780330523776Imprint: Picador
Reviews
How is one to convey half-adequately that Banville’s The Newton Letter is something out of the ordinary?Sunday Times
Banville’s prose has a dazzling amplitude and resource . . . a novelist of international calibre.Boston Globe
Very precise and evocative . . . full of teasing alignments and variations.Financial Times
A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art . . . The Newton Letter gave this reader such pleasurable excitement that he found it impossible to concentrate on anything until he had read it again to make sure that it seemed as good on the second reading. It didIrish Times
