Description
| Product ID: | 9780330372329 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Birchwood |
| Authors: | Author: John Banville |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘This is one of the most startling of the century’s varied achievements in Irish writing’ Seamus Deane <p>Told with lyrical prose, John Banville's <i>Birchwood </i>is the elegiac story of the aristocratic decline of an eccentric family riddled with dark secrets.<br><br>Once the big house on an Irish estate, Birchwood has turned into a baroque madhouse for its ruined inhabitants. One disaster succeeds another, until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a travelling circus and look for his long-lost twin sister. Soon he discovers that famine and unrest stalk the countryside, and Ireland is ruined too.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-08-06 |
