The Untouchable
02 October 2009Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book . . . It’s the fullest book I’ve read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable, written by a novelist of vast talent’ Richard Ford
Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement in the Commons and the hasty revelation of his double life of wartime...
Details
02 October 2009416 pages
9780330506939Imprint: 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.John Coldstream, Daily Telegraph
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.George Steiner, Observer
Brilliant displays of power and control . . . magnificently written and, in its exploration of inhumanity, startlingly humane.Alex Clark, Guardian
