1795 - John Banville - The Singularities | The Book Show

December 13, 2022 00:27:24
1795 - John Banville - The Singularities | The Book Show
The Book Show
1795 - John Banville - The Singularities | The Book Show

Dec 13 2022 | 00:27:24

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Show Notes

Booker Prize-winning author John Banville’s new novel "The Singularities" is a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.

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