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The Newton Letter

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19 August 2011
112 pages
9780330523776
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

How is one to convey half-adequately that Banville’s The Newton Letter is something out of the ordinary?
Banville’s prose has a dazzling amplitude and resource . . . a novelist of international calibre.
Very precise and evocative . . . full of teasing alignments and variations.
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 did