John Banville chooses Love, Sex, Death and Words as one of his Books of the Year

Posted on 2010/12/02 , tagged as

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Writing in the Irish Times, novelist John Banville says:

‘Love, Sex, Death and Words– the title itself is irresistible – by John Sutherland and Stephen Fender (Icon Books), is an enjoyable and entirely arbitrary romp through a leap year of anecdotes, from January 1st and the vexed history of the copyright of Peter Pan to the December 31st publication of Richard Yates’s 1961 novel Revolutionary Road, with stops along the way to visit Nietzsche at his typing lessons and Alexander Pope at his doctor’s. Good, clean, harmless fun.’

See more on the book here and the full piece in the Irish Times is here.