Benjamin Black - Elegy for April: A Novel
Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (March 29, 2011) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0312680732 | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | 0.2 mb + 0.3 mb
Publisher: Picador; Reprint edition (March 29, 2011) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0312680732 | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | 0.2 mb + 0.3 mb
If Elegy for April isn't the author's best book to date, it certainly boasts the elements for which he is known: a brooding, dark main character; a literary elegance; and, most of all, an evocation of a gloomy Dublin in which "class and religious divisions and [the city's] urgent, albeit repressed, sexual atmospheres helps his characters spring from the page" (Los Angeles Times). The only major point of contention was the plot, which a couple of critics felt was too contrived and slow. ("Mystery plotting is hardly [Banville's] primary concern," noted the New York Times.) But if readers won't lie awake turning the pages, they will cherish Banville's style. "When English prose looks like it's dying, the critic Cyril Connolly once said, an Irishman comes along with something to revive it and demolish the clichés" (Los Angeles Times).