Newton Letter e-bog
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'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art' - Irish TimesThe third in his thematically-connected Revolutions Trilogy, The Newton Letter is an exceptional work of literature from John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.A historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton's me...
E-bog
90,41 DKK
Forlag
Picador
Udgivet
19 august 2011
Længde
112 sider
Genrer
1DDR
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780330523776
'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art' - Irish TimesThe third in his thematically-connected Revolutions Trilogy, The Newton Letter is an exceptional work of literature from John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.A historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton's mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysterious occupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined histories to powerful effect. His elaborate attempts to decipher the complex web of relationships are, however, far from accurate . . .