5/27/2023 0 Comments The black eyed blonde![]() ![]() And Quirke - hard-drinking, often in love but essentially alone, determined to solve cases even when he knows it may very well imperil him - is Marlowe with a brogue. Black's novels are clearly cast in the Chandler mold, with atmospheric settings and plots that revolve around long-hidden secrets, societal corruption and the destructive nature of power and wealth. ![]() ![]() Banville is an acclaimed Irish literary novelist, winner of the Man Booker and a shelf of other prizes for such books as the The Sea, The Infinities and Ancient Light, wielder of a coolly refined, complex style often compared to those of Proust and Nabokov.īanville is also Benjamin Black, the pen name he has used to publish six bestselling noir crime fiction novels, including Christine Falls and The Silver Swan, about a cantankerous pathologist named Quirke who lives in Dublin (Banville's home) in the 1950s. Then I read who had been chosen to write the new book: Benjamin Black, a.k.a. ![]()
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