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The Infinities is a 2009 novel by John Banville . Plot introduction. The book involves a reunion of the Godley family as the family patriarch, Adam, lies in a coma on his deathbed. The book takes place in an alternative reality with the world powered by cold fusion and steam trains are still in use.
Feb 8, 2011 · The Infinities. John Banville. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 8, 2011 - Fiction - 288 pages. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a novel that is at once a gloriously...
- John Banville
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
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- The InfinitiesVintage International
The Infinities is an inventive melding of myth and realism, a sly and poignant tale of lust and loss, but above all it is a joy to read for the sheer beauty of its language.” — St. Petersburg Times “A major work of Shakespearean imagination, Banville’s fifteenth novel is among his best.”
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Overflowing with bawdy humour, John Banville has allowed his twinkling eye to rove through memories of the past and relationships of the present in this moving family drama. The Infinities is both a salacious delight and a penetrating exploration of the terrifying, wonderful, immutable plight of being human.
Dec 10, 2020 · The infinities. One long, languid midsummer's day, the Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father's bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, only nineteen, find that relations with their stepmother, Ursula, and their dying father, old Adam, are as strained as ever.
While old Adam Godley, a mathematical genius, lies on his deathbed, his family gathers in anticipation of his passing. His son, young Adam, is distracted by his faltering...
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The Infinities is a dazzling example of that mastery.” —Los Angeles TimesOn a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned...
