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Quirke Ser.: Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780312426323
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312426321
ISBN-13
9780312426323
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61486265
Product Key Features
Book Title
Christine Falls : a Novel
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Mystery & Detective / Historical, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General, Noir
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Quirke Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly. Intricately plotted, beautifully written."-- The Boston Globe "Measured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin Black's plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in Quirke's favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits."-- USA Today "Swirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . .toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one."-- The New York Times "Offers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . What's most disconcerting of all about Christine Falls is the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer "A dark, ambitious crime novel . . .It's going to make more than a few readers flip the book over to look at the author photo to make sure Banville's really pulling the strings."-- Newsday "Crime fiction rarely lives up to the term 'literary,' but [ Christine Falls ] is the happy exception."-- Entertainment Weekly, Swirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . . toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one., Crime fiction rarely lives up to the term 'literary,' but [ Christine Falls ] is the happy exception., A dark, ambitious crime novel . . . It's going to make more than a few readers flip the book over to look at the author photo to make sure Banville's really pulling the strings., "A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly."--The Boston Globe "Measured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin Black's plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in Quirke's favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits."--USA Today "Swirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . . toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one."--The New York Times "Offers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . What's most disconcerting of all aboutChristineFallsis the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "A dark, ambitious crime novel full of cliffhanger chapter endings, barroom brawls, even long-night trucker hauls. . . . The story is an explosive one. . . . Swift, perceptive, and unguiltily satisfying."--Newsday, Measured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin Black's plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in Quirke's favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits., "A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly. Intricately plotted, beautifully written." -- The Boston Globe "Measured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin Black's plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in Quirke's favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits." -- USA Today "Swirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . . toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one." -- The New York Times "Offers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . What's most disconcerting of all about Christine Falls is the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "A dark, ambitious crime novel . . . It's going to make more than a few readers flip the book over to look at the author photo to make sure Banville's really pulling the strings." -- Newsday "Crime fiction rarely lives up to the term 'literary,' but [ Christine Falls ] is the happy exception." -- Entertainment Weekly, "A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly. Intricately plotted, beautifully written."-- The Boston Globe "Measured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin Black's plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in Quirke's favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits."-- USA Today "Swirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . . toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one."-- The New York Times "Offers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . What's most disconcerting of all about Christine Falls is the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer "A dark, ambitious crime novel . . . It's going to make more than a few readers flip the book over to look at the author photo to make sure Banville's really pulling the strings."-- Newsday "Crime fiction rarely lives up to the term 'literary,' but [ Christine Falls ] is the happy exception."-- Entertainment Weekly, Offers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . What's most disconcerting of all about Christine Falls is the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it., "A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly. Intricately plotted, beautifully written."--The Boston Globe "Measured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin Black's plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in Quirke's favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits."--USA Today "Swirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . . toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one."--The New York Times "Offers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . What's most disconcerting of all about Christine Falls is the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "A dark, ambitious crime novel . . . It's going to make more than a few readers flip the book over to look at the author photo to make sure Banville's really pulling the strings."--Newsday "Crime fiction rarely lives up to the term 'literary,' but [Christine Falls] is the happy exception."--Entertainment Weekly , ôMeasured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin BlackÆs plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in QuirkeÆs favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits.ö - USA Today ôSwirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . . toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one.ö - The New York Times ôOffers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . WhatÆs most disconcerting of all about Christine Falls is the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it.ö - The Philadelphia Inquirer ôA dark, ambitious crime novel full of cliffhanger chapter endings, barroom brawls, even long-night trucker hauls. . . . The story is an explosive one. . . . Swift, perceptive, and unguiltily satisfying.ö - Newsday, "A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly. Intricately plotted, beautifully written."-- The Boston Globe "Measured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin Black's plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in Quirke's favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits."-- USA Today "Swirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . . toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one."-- The New York Times "Offers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . What's most disconcerting of all about Christine Falls is the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer "A dark, ambitious crime novel . . . It's going to make more than a few readers flip the book over to look at the author photo to make sure Banville's really pulling the strings."-- Newsday "Crime fiction rarely lives up to the term 'literary,' but [ Christine Falls ] is the happy exception."-- Entertainment Weekly , ôMeasured, taut, and transfixing . . . Benjamin BlackÆs plotting is methodical, detailed, and always gripping. You can smell the smoke in QuirkeÆs favorite pub and touch the cool walls in a Boston convent he later visits.ö - USA Today ôSwirling, elegant noir . . . Crossover fiction of a very high order . . . Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism . . . toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one.ö - The New York Times ôOffers a subtler, deeper satisfaction than just finding out whodunit. . . . WhatÆs most disconcerting of all about Christine Falls is the atmosphere of moral claustrophobia enveloping it.ö - The Philadelphia Inquirer ôA dark, ambitious crime novel full of cliffhanger chapter endings, barroom brawls, even long-night trucker hauls. . . . The story is an explosive one. . . . Swift, perceptive, and unguiltily satisfying.ö - Newsday, A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly. Intricately plotted, beautifully written.
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
823/.92
Synopsis
The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman's corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman's history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned--first subtly, then with violence--to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville's writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller., In the debut crime novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society
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