ISBN: 9780679405214

John Banville

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"Plot counts for nothing here, or seems not to, and mood becomes all--a mood sustained by a prose of idiosyncratic and appalling charm....'Athena' is as grotesque as a portrait by Arcimboldo, in which flowers and fruit and even fish can become the features in a human face, and every bit as beautiful."

Michael Gorra, New York Times Book Review, 05/21/1995

"Banville, a most intelligent writer for whom other writers have the highest respect, has here given not life, but the seeming-life of other books. He has in the past given us superb fiction that did, surely, live."

Frederick Busch, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 07/02/1995