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The Untouchable

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02 October 2009
416 pages
9780330506939
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

No novel burrowed deeper beneath my skin than The Untouchable . . . Prose of great elegance, applied to a sardonic narrative, created an atmosphere at once austere, chilling and utterly believable.
Banville is the most intelligent and stylish novelist currently at work in English . . . the mien is austere and Victorian; the awareness, the ironic readings of the contemporary are razor-sharp.
Brilliant displays of power and control . . . magnificently written and, in its exploration of inhumanity, startlingly humane.