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ISBN-10: 1427200726
ISBN-13: 9781427200723
Mar 2007
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Fresh off his Man Booker prize-winning THE SEA, John Banville has donned the pseudonym of Benjamin Black and dipped into the dark waters of crime fiction. His protagonist is a Dublin pathologist named Quirke who, in the aftermath of his wife's death, has become a mournful drunk. His wife's side of the family comes from an elite Catholic society, its ranks filled with doctors and judges, but when Quirke discovers his brother-in-law Malachy altering the cause of death on the corpse of a young woman, he begins to discover the seedy underbelly of Dublin's upper class. Black writes with a grisly cold-hearted brilliance, and the novel reveals itself with the same chilling precision of a masterfully performed autopsy.
| Size | | Height: | 6.0 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Fresh off his Man Booker prize-winning THE SEA, John Banville has donned the pseudonym of Benjamin Black and dipped into the dark waters of crime fiction. His protagonist is a Dublin pathologist named Quirke who, in the aftermath of his wife's death, has become a mournful drunk. His wife's side of the family comes from an elite Catholic society, its ranks filled with doctors and judges, but when Quirke discovers his brother-in-law Malachy altering the cause of death on the corpse of a young woman, he begins to discover the corrupt machinations of Dublin's upper class. Black writes with a grisly cold-hearted brilliance, and the novel has the chilling revelation of a masterfully performed autopsy."
Industry Reviews
"By the end, it hardly seems to matter whether it is John Banville or Benjamin Black whose name is on the title page--so vivid is the world of crushed hopes and deathless loathings, so keen the novel's eye for the moral rot of its cast."
(10/13/2006)
"A good story, and gorgeous writing." (starred review)
(12/01/2006)
"CHRISTINE FALLS rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism."
(03/01/2007)
"CHRISTINE FALLS is executed with what feels like authorial delight."
(03/25/2007)
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