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 triumphant piece of writing...Prose of such luscious
elegance...Exhilarating." --The New York Times Book Review
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.
