Description
A historian on the verge of finishing a long-delayed study of Isaac Newton rents a cottage near Dublin, believing the summer’s quiet will finally unlock his stalled manuscript. Instead, he finds himself drawn into a labyrinth of voices and correspondences—most notably a long, intimate letter addressed to a mentor—where the act of writing becomes inseparable from the act of seeing. As he wrestles with what he thinks he knows about Newton, morality, and intellectual inheritance, his own assumptions begin to distort the story he’s trying to tell. John Banville’s signature style—elegant, exacting, and psychologically alert—turns this epistolary premise into a meditation on authorship, obsession, and the uneasy distance between fact, interpretation, and self-deception.
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paperback
Wm Collins & Sons & Co
Published Jan 1, 1982
82 pages
ISBN: 9780436032653
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First Published
1982
Language
eng
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