THE SILVER SWAN

Black, Benjamin

ISBN 10: 0805081534 / ISBN 13: 9780805081534

Published by Henry Holt & Company, New York, 2008

About this Item

A pristine collectible book from the Booker Award winner John Banville. Here Mr. Banville writes under the pin name of Benjamin Black. This is the second novel in the series featuring the pathologist Garret Quirke. "Grippingly propulsive . . . Christine Falls was the most artful noir mystery in years; The Silver Swan is better."--Los Angeles Times.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SILVER SWAN
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805081534
• ISBN 13: 9780805081534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
• Seller catalogs:
  • MYSTERY
  • FICTION

About this title

Synopsis

The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions

 

Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke's long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated.
 
With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the best of him. Yet when an almost forgotten acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young wife's apparent suicide, Quirke's "old itch to cut into the quick of things, to delve into the dark of what was hidden" is roused again. As he begins to probe further into the shadowy circumstances of Deirdre Hunt's death, he discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those
he loves.
 
Haunting, masterfully written, and utterly mesmerizing in its nuance, The Silver Swan fully lives up to the promise of Christine Falls and firmly establishes Benjamin Black (a.k.a. John Banville) among the greatest of crime writers.

About the Author

Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. He lives in Dublin.