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   The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by John Banville. Many of the characters in The Book of Evidence appear in the 1993 sequel Ghosts. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38-year-old scientist who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbour.

   • Author: John Banville

   • Publish Year: 1989

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3. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Book of Evidence by John Banville - Goodreads

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   Jan 1, 2001 · Irish novelist John Banville—known to readers of mystery fiction as Benjamin Black—had been writing novels for twenty years when, in 1989, The Book of Evidence was short-listed for the Booker. Every page of this elegant psychopathic monologue—a thief and murderer's intelligent and restrained account of his inane and violent crime ...

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   Mar 5, 2010 · Inspired by the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur in Ireland, 1982, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive and utterly unprecedented killer. 'Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's souls' – Don DeLillo, author of White Noise and Libra.

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   John Banville’s novel is the compelling confession of an unlikely killer. To what extent is this darkly poetic admission of guilt actually ‘true’? The first-person prison testimony of Freddie Montgomery - convicted for the ghastly and seemingly motiveless kidnap and murder of a young woman.

6. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 8360The Book of Evidence by John Banville: 9780375725234 ...

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   When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could.

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7. www.amazon.co.uk › Book-Evidence-John-Banville › dpThe Book of Evidence: Amazon.co.uk: Banville, John, Tóibín ...

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   Inspired by the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur in Ireland, 1982, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive and utterly unprecedented killer.

   • Author: John Banville

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   What is John Banville's Book of evidence about?

   • The Book of Evidence is the first in John Banville's acclaimed Frames Trilogy. It is followed by Ghosts and Athena. Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of Lolita.

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   Is the Book of evidence a good book?

   • The Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within. Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people’s souls. One of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction.

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   Who wrote the book 'Evidence'?

   • The book 'Evidence' was published by Schilt Publishing Amsterdam in 2014 to critical acclaim and was chosen by New York Times Photography critic Teju Cole as one of two best photography books of the year. Diana Matar was appointed Distinguished Artist at Barnard College Columbia University, New York, in 2019.

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   Who is Freddie Montgomery in the Book of evidence?

   • The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by John Banville. Many of the characters in The Book of Evidence appear in the 1993 sequel Ghosts. The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38-year-old scientist who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbour.

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   Jun 12, 2001 · The book of evidence is the confession of Frederick Charles StJohn Vanderveld Montgomery (Freddie) who has committed a double crime. When he was stealing a valuable painting from the collection of relatives, Freddie was caught by the chambermaid, and he very brutally murdered her.

   • Author: John Banville