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Name: The Infinities

Author: John Banville
Year: 2009
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Award winners, Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary
Culture: Ireland

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ISBNs:
9780307474391
0307474399

On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. 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.

The Infinities--John Banville's first novel since his Booker Prize-winning and bestselling The Sea--is at once a gloriously earthy romp and a wise look at the terrible, wonderful plight of being human -- a dazzling novel from one of the most widely admires and acclaimed writers at work today