An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of The Sea.
I am therefore I think. So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel Birchwood, a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets—a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother—Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland, Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.
- ISBN10 0586086986
- ISBN13 9780586086988
- Publish Date 8 October 1987 (first published 5 February 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 December 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Paladin
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English