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Birchwood

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A classic novel of family, isolation, and a blighted Ireland from the Man Booker-prize winning author of The Sea—about the end of innocence for a boy and his country. 
I am therefore I think. So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel Birchwood, a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets—a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother—Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.

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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: May 20, 2009

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307494139
  • Release date: May 20, 2009

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780307494139
  • File size: 1845 KB
  • Release date: May 20, 2009

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

A classic novel of family, isolation, and a blighted Ireland from the Man Booker-prize winning author of The Sea—about the end of innocence for a boy and his country. 
I am therefore I think. So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel Birchwood, a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets—a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother—Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.

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