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The Silver Swan (Quirke Series #2)

The Silver Swan (Quirke Series #2)

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by Benjamin Black   John Banville  
Language: English
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Book Summary of The Silver Swan (Quirke Series #2)

It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke. Quirke's beloved Sarah has died, his surrogate father lies paralyzed by a stroke, and he’s been sober for half a year. When a near-forgotten acquaintance asks him to cover up his beautiful young wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke knows he should stay clear, for the sake of his sobriety and his peace of mind. But his old itch is irresistible, and before long he is probing further into the circumstances of Deidre Hunt’s death, into a web of drugs and illicit sex that may have snared his own daughter, Phoebe. With its vivid, intense evocation of 1950s Dublin, and intricate, psychologically complex storyline, The Silver Swan is "even more engrossing than last year’s Christine Falls" (Entertainment Weekly).

Editorial Reviews

Black is better known as the Booker Prize—winning author John Banville. Timothy Dalton is better known as the guy who used to play James Bond. Their collaboration on this mystery novel, the second in Black's Quirke series, offers an excellent opportunity for Dalton to flash his acting chops. Dalton's reading is hushed, intense and dramatic, read as if being performed onstage. This risky approach ends up melding perfectly with Black's atmospheric whodunit, with Dalton underscoring the literary quality of the prose. Dalton drops to a whisper nearly every other sentence, but it is the kind of whisper that penetrates the eardrums of even the duffers in the back row of the theater. The acted approach—Dalton playing every role, embodying every voice—is not always perfect, but the partnership between author and narrator is a definite success. Simultaneous release with the Henry Holt hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 7). (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About The Author:

Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. He lives in Dublin.

 

Details Of Book : The Silver Swan (Quirke Series #2)

Book: The Silver Swan (Quirke Series #2)
Author: Benjamin Black  John Banville 
ISBN: 0805081534
ISBN-13: 9780805081534
Binding: Hardbound
Publishing Date: 2008-03
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Number of Pages: 304
Language: English
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