{"product_id":"conversations-with-john-banville-earl-g-ingersoll-9781496828767","title":"Conversations with John Banville","description":"John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although he ultimately decided he lacked the talent for it, his passion for painting continues to influence and inform his work. Banville conceives the novel as a work of art aimed not at the present, but for the ages. He aspires to create narratives that offer readers a sense of what it is to be conscious, human, and feeling, and aims to convey his conviction that \"the familiar is always unfamiliar, the ordinary extraordinary.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eConversations with John Banville\u003c\/i\u003e is the first interview collection with this esteemed writer and includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five decades of work, from his first book, \u003ci\u003eLong Lankin\u003c\/i\u003e, to his novel \u003ci\u003eMrs. Osmond\u003c\/i\u003e and memoir, \u003ci\u003eTime Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e. The collection also includes discussions about--and with, in the case of James Gleick's 2014 interview--Banville's alter ego, Benjamin Black, who writes crime novels. Highly engaging and insightful, Banville's interviews offer a variety of writerly autobiography regarding what he has aimed to do in his work and how he continues to pursue perfection, which he has known from the beginning must be impossible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Earl G. Ingersoll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496828763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496828767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Earl G. Ingersoll","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978310189311,"sku":"9781496828767","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4429d9b5-93e4-47fd-94e5-228e199cebbc.jpg?v=1683240831","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-john-banville-earl-g-ingersoll-9781496828767","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}