{"product_id":"athena-1","title":"John Banville: Athena [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Morrow - a clerkish, middle-aged type encumbered with a chain-smoking dying aunt and a considerable talent for wallowing - is at a loose end when, on two separate occasions, he is beckoned up the stairs of an empty Dublin house. The first is an offer of dubious work, and Morrow soon becomes caught up in a conspiracy to authenticate a series of fake paintings. The second, possibly even odder, is an offer of a love - of a sort. Written in typically luminous prose and featuring a rich cast of characters, \u003ci\u003eAthena\u003c\/i\u003e is a paean to art, painting, and love, in all its mercurial richness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `One of the most profoundly intelligent, introspective novels of recent years, questioning the perceptions of author, narrator, reader and critic' \u003ci\u003eGood Book Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `The consummately achieved and entrancing creation of a master of language: in the fullest sense a work of art' \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `\u003ci\u003eAthena\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to Morrow's passions, to love, to art and to the paintings he examines: works on classical themes, in which a moment's obsession, lust, loss and magic are preserved for ever' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eVolume Three of the Frames Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banville, John","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51156057489747,"sku":"9780330371865","price":11.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47205719998803,"sku":"XV80330371865","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/banville-john-john-banville-athena-2010-paperback-1172370662.jpg?v=1749496277","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/athena-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}