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Congetture Su April (2010)

by John Banville(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8860883768 (ISBN13: 9788860883766)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Guanda

series

Quirke

review 1: This book is beautifully written. It evokes the fog-enveloped gloom of 1950s Dublin. It provides insights into the claustrophobic world of the city’s middle class. But nothing happens.Phoebe thinks her friend April may have disappeared but April always was a bit of a wild one. Phoebe talks about it to Quirke. Quirke ruminates on his complex family history. He learns to drive. He occasionally does some work but when he does it’s not very good.Various people suddenly want to speak to Quirke with the express purpose of not telling him anything about April. They acknowledge that she may be missing, but then she always was a bit of a wild one. They remind us of Quirke’s complex family history.Quirke has a flash of insight then wraps up the mystery in a couple of pages, ju... morest in time for his complex family history to become even more complex.I’m not sure whether John Banville is toying with his readers or whether he isn’t really interested in crime fiction. I recently heard him talking on Radio 4 about how he found his Benjamin Black novels much easier to write than his literary novels. Perhaps he needs to find them a bit harder.
review 2: Best in the series so far, maybe because Quirke is drying out, talking to his estranged daughter Phoebe, and April is such a mystery.In 1950s,Ireland, April, a doctor, goes missing. Phoebe enlists Dad to check on her at the hospital and with police. But all roads seem to dead end — no one cares that April is gone except Phoebe.April's family is well-to-do, connected to the church and politically, and doesn't necessarily want the family black sheep found.April was considered "fast" and Quirke, who stubbornly refuses to stop his probe into a whereabouts, follows leads in to some unexpected places, both concrete and emotional.The ending wasn't a surprise, but seemed an easy way to close. less

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