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Books : The Lemur: A Novel |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312428082
ISBN: 0312428081
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Studio: Picador
Sales Rank: 154622
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A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan
John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. He works in a big office in Mulholland Tower, rent-free, and goes home (most nights) to his wealthy and well-preserved wife, Wild Bill's daughter. He misses his old life sometimes, but all in all things have turned out well.
But when his shifty young researcher--a man he calls "The Lemur"--turns up some unflattering information about the family, Glass's whole easy existence is threatened. Then the young man is murdered, and it's up to Glass to find out what The Lemur knew, and who killed him, before any secrets come out--and before any other bodies appear.
Shifting from 1950s Dublin to contemporary New York, the masterful crime writer Benjamin Black returns in this standalone thriller--a story of family secrets so deep, and so dangerous, that anyone might kill to keep them hidden.
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Banville is my favorite living author and I provide this review with a heavy heart. Before the publication of this book and (it must be) with tongue firmly in cheek based on the succeeding events. Banville informed a room full of his devotees at a book signing event that he would not attempt a novel in the current time sited in the United States. He said that he couldn't catch the language and as we all sagely nodded, language is perhaps the element of his work that enchants his most fervent admirers. ... Read More
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To call this novella slight is perhaps too much praise. There are so few characters that there is little thought required to determine who' dun' it and it is almost writing by numbers. The characters are stereotypes that we are all familiar with from countless TV detective dramas.
The writing is terse and could almost be culled sentence by sentence from a myriad similar novels.
As an admirere of Banvilles previous work and even the first two Black novels all I can say is 'How the mighty are fallen'. ... Read More
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The book cover caught my eye first: a cloud of smoke obscuring the face of a young man. Then, the author's name. By now most avid fiction readers are aware that Benjamin Black is the pseudonym for John Banville, a respected and prize-winning author. I enjoyed Christine Falls, so some weeks later I was delighted to receive The Lemur as an Early Review book from Library Thing.
This very slender novel contains a mystery story with a punch. John Glass is in the awkward position of writing the biography ... Read More
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After reading Christine Falls and The Silver Swan, i found this to be a huge disappointment. As another reviewer wrote, the brevity of this story does not allow Black to show that he is a very talented mystery writer. I actually had a hard time getting through this book, or really wanting to find out the identity of the murderer. If I hadn't had high expectations for this book, based on previous Benjamin Black books, I probably wouldn't have even finished the book. Hopefully Black's next mystery will have more developed ... Read More
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Originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, this novella doesn't meet the standards of Black's Quirke novels. Irish journalist John Glass has given up reporting on foreign wars and accepted a commission from his wealthy and powerful American father-in-law, "Big Bill," to write the old man's biography.
His reduced role in the world - complacent, unfaithful husband of a rich wife, occupying a glassed-in office in the old man's Manhattan skyscraper - doesn't square with his war-correspondent persona. ... Read More
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312428082
ISBN: 0312428081
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Studio: Picador
Sales Rank: 154622
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