{"product_id":"long-lankin-isbn-9780345807069","title":"Long Lankin","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of short stories from the early years of the Man Booker Prize-winning author's career that explores the passionate emotions—fear, jealousy, desire—that course beneath the surface of everyday life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a couple at risk of being torn apart by the allure of wealth to an old man’s descent into nature, the tales in this collection showcase the talents that launched Banville onto the literary scene. Offering a unique insight into the mind of “one of the great living masters of English-language prose” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), these nine haunting sketches stand alone as canny observations on the turbulence of the human condition.Praise for John Banville and \u003ci\u003eLong Lankin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into a declarative sentence.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Banville is the most intelligent and stylish novelist currently at work.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The stories move unerringly with a nervous, almost aggressive speed, creating taut emotional situations. . . . Thoroughly Irish and thoroughly individual.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Banville has the skill, ambition and learning to stand at the end of the great tradition of modernist writers.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If Banville is capable of writing an unmemorable sentence, he has successfully concealed the evidence.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Prodigiously gifted. He cannot write an unpolished phrase, so we read him slowly, relishing the stream of pleasures he affords. Everything in Banville’s books is alive. Bleakly elegant, he is a writer’s writer . . . who can conjure with the poetry of people and places.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Banville is the heir to Proust, via Nabokov.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A glorious stylist whose prose holds sustaining pleasures, both large and small.” —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Banville’s mastery of language is an intense delight.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cb\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/b\u003e, the author of sixteen novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. He lives in Dublin.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304320815333,"sku":"NP9780345807069","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780345807069.jpg?v=1767731699","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/long-lankin-isbn-9780345807069","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}