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Sat 08 Aug 2009Of gods and men
FICTION:The InfinitiesBy John Banville Picador, 300pp. 14.99 Intriguging, complex, and ultimately elusive, John Banville's latest novel manages to bring glimmers of possibility to its dark characters.
LIKE MEMBERS of an extended family, each of John Banville’s novels is at once familiar and a surprise. The arch intelligence and precise delicacy of his sentences, the occasionally arcane diction, the unsentimental authorial eye – these traits, like the curve of a familial nose or timbre of a laugh, recur throughout his oeuvre.
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