Snow by John Banville audiobook

Snow: A Novel

By John Banville
Read by John Lee

Hanover Square Press, Harlequin Audio 9781335230003

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781799919926

  • ISBN: 9781799919919

  • ISBN: 9781799919933

Runtime: 8.37 Hours
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel is the story of an aristocratic family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their home.

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family.

The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford—flinty, visibly Protestant, and determined to identify the murderer—faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in this tight-knit community. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community’s secrets, like the snowfall itself, threatens to obliterate everything.

Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative, and pulsing with suspense, Snow is “the Irish master” (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“All the trimmings of a classic mystery, elevated by Banville’s immaculate, penetrating prose.” —Peter Swanson, author of Eight Perfect Murders
“The first mystery Banville has written under his own name, rather than as Benjamin Black, Snow stars a crusty Protestant detective investigating a murder in County Wexford.” —Library Journal
“The Irish master.” —New Yorker
“He cannot write an unpolished phrase, so we read him slowly, relishing the stream of pleasures he affords.” —Independent (London)
“A brilliant stylist.” —Christian Science Monitor
“Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy.” —People
“John Banville is the heir to Nabokov.” —Sunday Telegraph (London)
“One of the best novelists in English.” —Guardian (London)
“The heir to Proust.” —Daily Beast
“A great storyteller.” —Observer (London)
“Banville’s ventriloquism is word-perfect.” —Vulture
“[Banville’s] books are like baroque cathedrals, filled with elaborate passages.” —Paris Review
“A grand writer with a seductive style.” —New York Times
“One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty, originality, and elegance.” —USA Today
“John Banville deserves his Booker Prize.” —Los Angeles Times

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Author

Author Bio: John Banville

Author Bio: John Banville

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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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Runtime: 8.37
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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