John Banville: The Newton Letter (Revolutions Trilogy, 3)

Name: John Banville: The Newton Letter (Revolutions Trilogy, 3)
Author: Banville, John
ISBN: 9780330372350

by Banville, John

ISBN: 9780330372350

Published: 1999

Fiction

'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art' - Irish Times The third in his thematically-connected Revolutions Trilogy, The Newton Letter is an exceptional work of literature from John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea. A historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton's mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysterious occupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined histories to powerful effect. His elaborate attempts to decipher the complex web of relationships are, however, far from accurate . . .

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