The Harvard Crimson
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Banville Creates a Parallel Universe in ‘The Infinities’
'The Infinities' by John Banville (Knopf)
Published: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
John Banville is a calculating craftsman. The Irish novelist’s 1998 “The Book of Evidence” was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and his 2005 novel “The Sea” won it. Critics have compared his dreamy, playful writing to that of Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf; Don DeLillo praised his work as “dangerous and clear-running.”
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—Staff writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwart@fas.harvard.edu.