Venetian Vespers by Banville, John

Venetian Vespers

A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap...
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Author: John Banville
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Language: English
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Venetian Vespers by Banville, John

Venetian Vespers

$46.09

Venetian Vespers

$46.09
Author: John Banville
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner

Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . .

1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman--a hack, by his own description--marries Laura Rensselaer, daughter of an American oil tycoon. Evelyn anticipates that he and Laura will inherit a substantial fortune and lead a comfortable, settled life. But his hopes are dashed when a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, just before the patriarch's death, leads to her disinheritance.

The unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice to celebrate the New Year at the Palazzo Dioscuri, ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo. From their first moments in the mist-blanketed floating city, otherworldly occurrences begin to accumulate. Evelyn's already jangled nerves fray further. Where has Laura disappeared to? How to explain the increasingly sinister circumstances closing around him? Could he be losing his mind?

Venetian Vespers is a haunting, atmospheric novel from one of the most sophisticated stylists of our time.

Author: John Banville
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.63w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780593801161


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/08/2025 pg. 5
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2025
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2025
BookPage 10/01/2025
Booklist 09/01/2025

About the Author
JOHN BANVILLE, the author of numerous novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Nonino International Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He lives in Dublin.

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