{"product_id":"conversations-with-john-banville-paperback","title":"Conversations with John Banville - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEarl G. Ingersoll\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Cusatis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversations with John Banville 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, Long Lankin, to his novel Mrs. Osmond and memoir, Time Pieces. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarl G. Ingersoll\u003c\/b\u003e (1938-2021) was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at SUNY College at Brockport. He wrote, edited, and coedited many books, including \u003ci\u003eConversations with May Sarton\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Rita Dove\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Anthony Burgess, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConversations with Colum McCann\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi. \u003cb\u003eJohn Cusatis\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Charleston School of the Arts. He is author of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Colum McCann\u003c\/i\u003e, the first critical study of the Irish-born National Book Award winner, as well as editor of \u003ci\u003ePostwar Literature, 1945-1970\u003c\/i\u003e, three volumes of the \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Conversations with Billy Collins.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185718935801,"sku":"9781496828767","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cm1zTHRiVXFLTEdMenpQOUNtNzNqUT09.webp?v=1767819843","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/conversations-with-john-banville-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}