Author: John Banville. Published by Vintage Books, New York, NY., 1989, 1st Edition. (2001 1st Vintage Books Ed.) Printed in USA. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.25 x 8 inch, 220 pages.
THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE, A Novel by John Banville, is about a thirty-eight-year-old man, after returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, he commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative.
"I really enjoyed this book because I really enjoy despair and self-pity. Especially if it’s couched in a good story by an Irish writer with a fabulous vocabulary. Banville is the saint of sumptuous sentences. Although the book is riddled with them, there’s a real knock-out on page 32:
“I drank my drink. There is something about gin, the tang in it of the deep wildwood, perhaps, that always makes me think of twilight and mists and dead maidens. Tonight it tinkled in my mouth like secret laughter.” -Reviewed by Sarah on Goodreads.
