The Singularities -- John Banville, Hardcover

From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.

A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car--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 idiosyncratic 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 figures, 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.

Author: John Banville
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/25/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780525655176

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2022
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 85
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2022
Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 35
Shelf Awareness 10/28/2022