Description
Returning to Europe after visiting her dying cousin in England, Isabel Osmond—rich, self-possessed, and quietly reluctant to go home—finds herself drawn into a game of intimacy and control that she never fully chooses to enter. In London, her carefully managed life begins to unravel as she and her husband, Osmond, engage in a slow, elegant contest of deception, each trying to outwit the other while preserving the appearance of devotion. With Banville’s signature lyrical precision and psychological acuity, the novel turns on the shifting boundaries between love and performance, memory and invention, and the stories people tell to protect themselves. What emerges is a restrained, suspenseful portrait of marriage as theater—where the plot is less about events than about the subtle, dangerous movements of the mind.
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paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2018
384 pages
ISBN: 9780241977132
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
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