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First Published:
Nov 2005, 195 pages
Paperback:
Aug 2006, 208 pages
This article relates to The Sea
The Booker Prize was
established by the Booker
McConnell company in 1969, and
is considered to be one of
most important literary awards
in the UK, if not the most
important. In recent years it
has been sponsored by the Man
Group, an investment company,
and thus is officially known as
The Man Booker Prize, but is
more often referred to simply as
'The Booker'.
Pierre Bonnard: Max has a
tendency to muse over the
paintings of Pierre Bonnard and
in particular Bonnard's
paintings of his wife, Marthe,
in the bath.
abcgallery.com has a good
collection of Bonnard's pictures
if you're interested in taking a
look, and if you do, spare a
thought for poor old Marthe and
think how lucky you are not to
be married to an artist who
paints pictures of you in the
bathtub - unless of course you
are!
John Banville was born in
Wexford, Ireland, in 1945, and
lives in Dublin. Between 1988
and 1999 he was the literary
editor of the Irish Times. His
first book, Long Lankin,
a collection of short stories,
was published in 1970. It was
followed by two novels,
Nightspawn (1971) and
Birchwood (1973); and then
by Dr Copernicus, which
won the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize for fiction, and
was followed by a series of
novels exploring the lives of
eminent scientists.
Bibliography (dates and
titles reflect UK publications)
Long Lankin, 1970
Nightspawn, 1971
Birchwood,1973
Dr Copernicus, 1976
Kepler, 1981
The Newton Letter: An
Interlude, 1982
Mefisto, 1986
The Book of Evidence,
1989
Ghosts, 1993
Athena, 1995
The Ark, 1996
The Untouchable, 1997
Eclipse, 2000
Shroud, 2002
Prague Pictures: Portrait of
a City, 2003
The Sea, 2005.
This "beyond the book article" relates to The Sea. It originally ran in January 2006 and has been updated for the
August 2006 paperback edition.
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