John Banville

'This novel is essence of Banville ... a career summation' Daily Telegraph Felix Mordaunt, recently released from prison, steps from a flashy red sports car onto the estate of his youth. But there is a new family living in the drafty old house: descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley. Felix must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, with their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, with the recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request...

The Singularities

Miguel Angel Palmer Salva

Le encantaba asimismo el cine y asistía con frecuencia a las funciones de tarde de la Arcady Arthouse (Ilustración 7), una sala universitaria especializada en los clásicos en blanco y negro de los años dorados de Hollywood. Le gustaban los westerns en particular. Él y Gabriel Swan, que compartía su entusiasmo por "esos cuentos morales de nuestro tiempo", como Godley los definió, se sentaban en la primera fila.

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