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Nightspawn

novel by Banville

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  • John Banville
    In John Banville: Fiction

    …was followed by two novels: Nightspawn (1971), an intentionally ambiguous narrative, and Birchwood (1973), the story of an aristocratic Irish family in decline. Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1981), and The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982) are fictional biographies based on the lives of noted scientists. These three works use scientific

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