Athena, John Banville
Athena, John Banville
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Athena

Author: John Banville

Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/21/2023


Synopsis

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. • "A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style." —The Boston Globe

About John Banville

JOHN BANVILLE, the author of twenty novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He lives in Dublin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on November 20, 2021

CRITIQUE: The Collapse of a Questionable Narration "Athena" marks the conclusion of "the Freddie Montgomery Trilogy", although it's arguable that the narrative of the Trilogy had collapsed well before the end of the third novel, rather than being reinforced by the extended focus. As with "Ghosts......more

Goodreads review by Michael on March 15, 2014

Sometimes I think the hardest concept to explain to people who don't write about the act of writing itself is the idea of presentation, that just because a story essentially boils down to "this happened, then this happened, then this happened, and then it turned out it was the dog all along" doesn't......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 22, 2010

I don't know what I think of this book. I had trouble concentrating & don't know if that's my fault or the books,......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 21, 2007

I love this book. I love this book so much. John Banville is a much under appreciated author, i think. read him. its delicious!......more

Goodreads review by Karl on September 21, 2023

Glutton for punishment that I am, I finally broke down and picked up the third of the Freddie Montgomery novels. (Don't be so damn coy, Banville and "Morrow": We all know it's Freddie from about page 1.) Oh well, Mommy always did make me finish everything on my plate. This entry is somewhat more pala......more


Quotes

"A thriller ... by Ireland's master of the exquisite and uncanny, whose brilliant use of prose narration places him in a league with Joyce and Beckett." —San Francisco Chronicle

"A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style." —The Boston Globe