Benjamin Black. (2008). The Silver Swan: Quirke Series, Book 2. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

Benjamin Black. 2008. The Silver Swan: Quirke Series, Book 2. Macmillan Audio.

Benjamin Black, The Silver Swan: Quirke Series, Book 2. Macmillan Audio, 2008.

Benjamin Black. The Silver Swan: Quirke Series, Book 2. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2008.

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   • bioText: Benjamin Black is the pen name of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville. Black's books include The Black-Eyed Blonde, Christine Falls, The Silver Swan, among others. He lives in Dublin.
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Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, the Judge lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke's long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated.
With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the best of him. Yet when an almost-forgotten acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young wife's apparent suicide, Quirke's "old itch to cut into the quick of things, to delve into the dark of what was hidden" is roused again. As he begins to probe further into the shadowy circumstances of Deirdre Hunt's death, he discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves. Haunting, masterfully written, and utterly mesmerizing in its nuance, The Silver Swan fully lives up to the promise of Christine Falls and firmly establishes Benjamin Black (a.k.a. John Banville) among the greatest of crime writers.

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   • content: The eagerly awaited sequel to CHRISTINE FALLS is brought to life by none other than James Bond himself, Timothy Dalton, in a reading so good it will make listeners giddy with delight. Of course, the material is far from delightful as legendary Irish crime novelist John Banville, writing under the name of Benjamin Black, delivers a story steeped in the darkest realms of the human psyche. Dalton is perfectly suited for this sort of tale. His grainy yet charming accent is a great fit for the brooding atmosphere of the novel. As the heavy-drinking Irish pathologist Quirke, Dalton offers a pitch-perfect Irish brogue. It's all thrilling, honest, and raw. L.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from January 7, 2008
     In this stunning follow-up to 2007’s Christine Falls
     , Black (pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville) spins a complex tale of murder and deception in 1950s Ireland. Pathologist Garret Quirke, surprised by a visit from a college acquaintance, Billy Hunt, is even more surprised when Billy begs Quirke not to perform an autopsy on his wife, Deirdre, whose naked body was recently retrieved from Dublin Bay. Though everything points to suicide, Quirke knows something’s amiss and begins to retrace Deirdre’s steps. Black expertly balances Quirke’s investigation with chapters detailing Deidre’s past, from her marriage to Billy to her shady business deal with Leslie White, an enigmatic Englishman who knew Deidre as Laura Swan, the proprietress of their joint venture, a beauty salon called the Silver Swan. As Quirke digs deeper, he discovers a web of lies and blackmail that threatens to envelop even his own estranged daughter, Phoebe. Laconic, stubborn Quirke makes an appealing hero as the pieces of this unsettling crime come together in a shocking conclusion. Author tour.
     

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     Starred review from April 28, 2008
     Black is better known as the Booker Prize–winning author John Banville. Timothy Dalton is better known as the guy who used to play James Bond. Their collaboration on this mystery novel, the second in Black's Quirke series, offers an excellent opportunity for Dalton to flash his acting chops. Dalton's reading is hushed, intense and dramatic, read as if being performed onstage. This risky approach ends up melding perfectly with Black's atmospheric whodunit, with Dalton underscoring the literary quality of the prose. Dalton drops to a whisper nearly every other sentence, but it is the kind of whisper that penetrates the eardrums of even the duffers in the back row of the theater. The acted approach—Dalton playing every role, embodying every voice—is not always perfect, but the partnership between author and narrator is a definite success. Simultaneous release with the Henry Holt hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 7).

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     May 1, 2008
     Black, the pen name of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville ("The Sea"), is a fine writer, but, as so often happens when a "straight" author turns to writing genre fiction, this book (following "Christine Falls") is just not one of his best. The wife of an old acquaintance has been found dead, and Irish pathologist Garrett Quirke wants to know what really happened. Not much of a mystery (the murderer, while not explicitly revealed, is quite obvious from the beginning), "Silver Swan" is mostly devoted to exploring the lives and thoughts of people before and after a murder. Unfortunately, despite some very beautiful writing, most of the characters seem one-dimensional, sometimes irritatingly so. As an audiobook this title suffers from another, more unusual problem: Timothy Dalton reads with a gentle, attractive, singsong inflection but also rather quickly, and American listeners may have difficulty understanding some sentences. Recommended for large public libraries.I. Pour-El, Des Moines Area Community Coll., Boone, IA

     Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     August 4, 2008
     Black, the pen name of Booker Prize-winning author John Banville (The Sea), second atmospheric crime novel starring Quirke, a 1950s Dublin pathologist and unlikely hero. This novel opens with the death of a young woman, the owner of a seemingly successful beauty salon called the Silver Swan. Her body is found in the river, her clothing neatly folded at the edge of the water. The distraught husband, not wanting his beautiful wife's body harmed, asks Quirke to bypass the standard postmortem. Upon examining it, Quirke quickly notices a puncture mark visible on the dead woman's arm. And so Quirke's descent into darkness begins. Black/Banville is a master of atmosphere; the fear and dread associated with hidden desires and deeds fairly leap off the page. Highly recommended for all public libraries. LJ 2/1/08

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