Athena

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. - "A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style." --The Boston Globe

Author: John Banville
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/28/1996
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.21w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780679736851
ISBN10: 0679736859
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He has been the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1976), the Guardian Fiction Prize (1981), the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award (1989), and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1997). He has been both shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1989) and awarded the Man Booker Prize (2005) as well as nominated for the Man Booker International Prize (2007). Other awards include the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2013), and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014). He lives in Dublin.