Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement in the Commons, the hasty revelation of his double life of wartime espionage, his photograph is all over the papers. His disgrace is public,
his position as curator of the Queen’s pictures terminated … Maskell writes his own testament, in an act not unlike the restoration of one of his beloved pictures, in order for the process of
verification and attribution to begin.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Maskell takes his place with John le Carre’s Alec Leamas as one of spy fiction’s greatest characters. Poetic and deeply affecting.” —People
“As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Victor Maskell is a thinly disguised Anthony Blunt…Banville has pulled off a marvelous series of tricks.” —Spectator (London)
“Banville’s acute characterization and laceratingly witty prose capture perfectly the paradoxically idealistic yet cynical mood of the upper classes in 1930s Britain.” —Time Out (New York)
“The rich fabric of this novel blends the shrewd humor of a comedy of manners with the suspense of a tale of espionage.” —Booklist
John Banville is the author of more than twenty novels, as well as nonfiction and plays. Time Pieces was a New York Times bestseller, and The
Sea won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has also won the Franz Kafka Prize, the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Best
Novel, and the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain’s most important literary prize. He was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945, and lives in Dublin.
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