The breadth of Butler's interests and concerns is remarkable, even for a writer whose career spanned the greater part of a tumultuous century ... Whether he is writing about wartime atrocities or local history, the slaughter of the Jews or Celtic hagiography, he speaks with authenticity. In this he is a member of a dying species.' - John Banville
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'[Butler] has all the essayists gifts: a clear, strong prose, a fascination with everyday affairs ... To inform without pedantry and enlighten without condescension...' - Hugh Bredin
Author Biography
John Banville is an award-winning Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is considered to be 'one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today.'
