John Banville
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.
4) Mrs. Osmond
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician lies dying. Gathered around him are his family: Adam, his son; Adam's wife; Petra, his daughter; his wife Ursula, stepmother to his children; and his daughter's young man. But the Godley family is not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a family of mischievious immortals who begin to sir up trouble to sometimes wildly unintended effect.
Author
Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 23 cm.
9) Shroud
Author
Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
"As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived. And though, when he came of age and took up residence there,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
320 p. ;
Description
"From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters-Freddie Montgomery from The Book of Evidence-as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sportscar-also borrowed-onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty...
Author
Series
Evidence trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old man commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1950s Dublin, renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI John Strafford investigate the murder of a young history scholar with the help of her journalist sister, and as they close in on the killer, their personal lives put the case, and the lives of everyone involved, in danger.
14) Marlowe
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light.
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1920, a young woman struggles with her longings for love and the yearning for freedom as the war for Irish independence escalates around her family of Anglo-Irish aristocrats and their estate in County Cork.
16) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.