This is the 2006 winner of the Booker Prize by the Scottish author John Banville. I should start by saying that this is a relatively limited novel in a lot of ways, but has a very distinct and earnest narrator. I feel like the characterization and the writing are relatively strong, but the novel itself is not particularly remarkable or memorable. Had it not won the Booker Prize (and it probably should have lost to Kazuo Ishiguru’s Never Let Me Go) it would have faded from […]