Athena
11 February 2016Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose’ Sunday Times
Athena is the third in the Frames Trilogy, a set of loosely connected novels by the Booker Prize-winning author, John Banville.
Morrow – a clerkish, middle-aged type encumbered with a chain-smoking dying aunt and a considerable talent for wallowing – is at a loose end when, on two separate occasions, he is beckoned up...
Details
11 February 2016240 pages
9781509822638Imprint: Picador
Reviews
One of the most profoundly intelligent, introspective novels of recent years, questioning the perceptions of author, narrator, reader and critic.Good Book Guide
The consummately achieved and entrancing creation of a master of language: in the fullest sense a work of art.Scotsman
Athena is a love letter to Morrow’s passions, to love, to art and to the paintings he examines: works on classical themes, in which a moment’s obsession, lust, loss and magic are preserved for ever.Literary Review
