Birchwood - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781335928450

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by John Banville (Author)

A classic novel of family, isolation and a blighted Ireland from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea depicts the end of innocence for a boy and his country.

Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a dilapidated family manor filled with memories and despair. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a traveling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that famine and unrest stalk the countryside, and Ireland is ruined too.

Told with lyrical prose, John Banville's Birchwood is the elegiac story of the aristocratic decline of an eccentric family riddled with dark secrets.

"John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English language." --The Scotsman

Number of Pages: 208

Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.6 x 5.1 IN

Publication Date: March 12, 2024

$20.51

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