In his first novel since the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, Banville gives readers a dazzling work that chronicles both a human family and a rather unholy gathering of immortals.
Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals--Zeus, Pan, and Hermes among them--who begin to stir up trouble for the Godleys, to sometimes wildly unintended effect..
But they are not alone in their vigil. -- Los Angeles Times On a languid midsummer\'s day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch.
The Infinities is a dazzling example of that mastery.
One of the great living masters of English-language prose.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a novel that is at once a gloriously earthy romp and a wise look at the terrible, wonderful plight of being human.
In his first novel since the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, Banville gives readers a dazzling work that chronicles both a human family and a rather unholy gathering of immortals