02264cam a2200313 i 4500 1165007442 TxAuBib 20221115120000.0 211203s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021058474 9780525655176 HRD 30.00 0525655174 HRD 30.00 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT IMmBT NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Banville, John, author. The singularities / John Banville. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 307 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. "From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters-Freddie Montgomery from The Book of Evidence-as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sportscar-also borrowed-onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godley, whose theory of existence threw the universe into chaos. And this mystery man, who has just completed a prison sentence, feels as if time has stopped, or was torn, or was opened in new and strange ways. He must now vie with the dysfunctional Godley family, with their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady, with the recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr., and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request. With sparkling intelligence and rapier wit, John Banville revisits some of his career's most memorable characters, in a novel as mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived. The Singularities occupies a singular space and will surely be one of his most admired works"-- Provided by publisher. 20221115. Ex-convicts Fiction. Families Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. TXKIP