John Banville
1) The sea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife, Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed inthoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
Author
Series
Quirke novel volume 8
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1950s Dublin, renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI John Strafford investigate the murder of a young history scholar with the help of her journalist sister, and as they close in on the killer, their personal lives put the case, and the lives of everyone involved, in danger.
3) Snow
Author
Series
St. John Strafford volume 1
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets.
1957. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate when a parish priest is found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The Catholic...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An early short story collection by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea explores the depths of family dysfunction, insanity and death and includes the stories of a couple being torn apart by wealth and an elderly man's descent into nature and madness.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents the author's life near Dublin, a city that inspired his imagination and literary life and served as a backdrop for the dissatisfactions of adult years shaped by Dublin's cultural, political, architectural, and social history.
11) Mrs. Osmond
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and--as Isabel finds out too late--cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate. On a trip...
12) Los infinitos
Author
Publisher
Libranda
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
La familia Godley se ha reunido en Arden, su finca, en medio de una verde campiña, cerca de un antiguo lugar sagrado y de las vías del tren. Han venido porque el viejo Adam Godley, un respetado y exaltado matemático, se está muriendo. Le acompañan Ursula, su segunda esposa, madre de Adam y de su hermana Petra, y Helen, la mujer del joven Adam, bella como la homérica Helena. Y también están Ivy Blount, la última aristócrata del lugar,...
13) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Albert Nobbs, posing as a man to work in a nineteenth-century Dublin hotel and live independently, struggles to escape her lie.
14) The Sea
Author
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the novel by John Banville. After the death of his wife, Max returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers, provoking a cathartic reflection as the present draws out powerful memories of innocent joy, uplifting warmth, and profound tragedy from one fateful summer many years ago. Only an unforeseen revelation will provide a path to redemption and closure.