Book Description
A historian, trying to finish a long-overdue book on Isaac Newton, rent a cottage not far by train from Dublin for the summer. All he need, he thinks, is a few weeks of concentrated work. Why, he must unravel, did Newton break down in 1693? What possessed him to write that strange letter to his friend John Locke? But in the long seeping summer days, old sloth and present reality take over.
My Review
This is the first book that I have read by John Banville. It was a very short book and it seemed a little vague to me. This book leads one to believe that the book is about Isaac Newton but he is only mentioned and not really the focus of the book. That being said, I look forward to reading another of his books in order to compare the writing with this one as I feel this is not one of his best books.
A historian, trying to finish a long-overdue book on Isaac Newton, rent a cottage not far by train from Dublin for the summer. All he need, he thinks, is a few weeks of concentrated work. Why, he must unravel, did Newton break down in 1693? What possessed him to write that strange letter to his friend John Locke? But in the long seeping summer days, old sloth and present reality take over.
My Review
This is the first book that I have read by John Banville. It was a very short book and it seemed a little vague to me. This book leads one to believe that the book is about Isaac Newton but he is only mentioned and not really the focus of the book. That being said, I look forward to reading another of his books in order to compare the writing with this one as I feel this is not one of his best books.
