John Banville

Jan 10, 2025 | irishtimes.com | John Banville

Bonnard Author: Isabelle Cahn ISBN-13: 978-3791377452Publisher: Prestel Guideline Price: £99One sure measure of the greatness of Pierre Bonnard is the fact that Pablo Picasso never missed an opportunity to pour scorn on his work. The two painters could have not been more unalike, in their lives and in their art.

Jan 6, 2025 | theguardian.com | John Banville

The story is told of Marilyn Monroe and a friend walking down Fifth Avenue one day in the 1950s discussing Marilyn Monroe. MM was wearing a headscarf and a plain, belted raincoat. The friend remarked on the great difference there was between the woman he knew and the star the world thought it knew. “You want me to be her?” Marilyn said. “Watch.” She whipped off the scarf, opened the raincoat, thrust out her chest and put on The Walk.

Dec 5, 2024 | newstatesman.com | John Banville

A novelist’s name is writ in water, and come a drought may be reduced to a wisp of spume. In his day Anthony Burgess was a very  big fish in the literary pond, most famous, or infamous, for the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange, written in a wonderfully clever Russo-English patois of the author’s invention. The book was adapted for the screen by Stanley Kubrick, who later suppressed the film because of its perceived infatuation with or even encouragement to extreme violence.

Nov 30, 2024 | leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |John Banville |Joseph D. Puglisi

BOOK DETAILS The DrownedBy John BanvilleHanover Square Press$28.99   There is no overt violence, no bloody beatings or grisly shootings, only waterlogged bodies floating to the surface or washing ashore, leaving the reader to ponder how and why until the final pages. In the hands of Booker Prize-winning novelist Banville, it’s also a compelling study of how dire consequences can develop from even the smallest actions.

Nov 29, 2024 | readingmattersblog.com | John Banville

A Year With John Banville | #JohnBanville2024Fiction – paperback; Picador; 241 pages; 1995. Athena is the third instalment in John Banville’s Frames trilogy, which began with The Book of Evidence (1989) and Ghosts (1993). The story follows Morrow, a Dublin art expert, as he becomes entangled in a web of art, crime and dodgy personal relationships.