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Doctor Copernicus : A Novel by John Banville (2024, Trade Paperback)

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For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarlequin Enterprises Ulc

ISBN-101335145893

ISBN-139781335145895

eBay Product ID (ePID)5061623113

Product Key Features

Book TitleDoctor Copernicus : a Novel

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicBiographical, Historical

Publication Year2024

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Banville

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight8.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition18

Reviews"The Irish master." --New Yorker "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 Book Review "[Banville's] books are like baroque cathedrals, filled with elaborate passages." --Paris Review "A grand writer with a seductive style." --Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy." --People "A brilliant stylist." --Christian Science Monitor "Represents a watershed in contemporary Irish writing." --Colm Tóibín "John Banville is the heir to Nabokov." --Sunday Telegraph "One of the best novelists in English." --Edmund White, Guardian "He cannot write an unpolished phrase, so we read him slowly, relishing the stream of pleasures he affords." --The Independent (UK) "The heir to Proust." --Daily Beast "A great storyteller." --Observer "Banville's ventriloquism is word-perfect." --Vulture

Dewey Decimal823/.9/1

SynopsisThe classic novel by "Irish master" ( New Yorker ) and Booker Prize-winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks "the secret music of the universe" poses a most devastating threat. "A tour de force... Exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world." -- The Times, The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize-winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks "the secret music of the universe" poses a most devastating threat. "A tour de force... Exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world." --The Times