Athena (novel)

Athena is a 1995 novel by John Banville, the third in a series that started with The Book of Evidence and continued with Ghosts.[1]

First edition
(publ. Secker & Warburg)
Cover artist George Frederic Watts, The Minotaur, 1885

In it a woman steps out of her lover's canvasses.[2] It contains a character called Morrow.[3] There is murder, art and Greek mythology.[4] There is also a serial killer.[1]

Reviewers compared it favourably with the writing of John Fowles, William Gass, John Hawkes and Vladimir Nabokov.[5]

References
  1. Bernstein, Richard (9 May 1995). "Books of the Times; Art and Murder in a Hall of Mirrors". The New York Times.
  2. Arana, Marie (19 September 1999). "John Banville: Ireland's Wordsmith". The Washington Post.
  3. "`Athena': Colorful portrait of the low life". The Washington Times. 28 May 1995.
  4. "Cryptic, gripping, multifaceted `Athena'". The Boston Globe. 23 May 1995.
  5. Busch, Frederick (2 July 1995). "The Word Made Flesh". Los Angeles Times.


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