Ghosts

Name: Ghosts
Author: John Banville

1993 novel by John Banville

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Author: John Banville
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Released: 1993
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Publisher: Secker & Warburg
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Language: English
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Follows: The Book of Evidence
Followed by: Athena

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Ghosts is a 1993 novel by John Banville. It was his first novel since 1989's The Book of Evidence, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The second in what Banville described as a "triptych", to make "an investigation of the way in which the imagination works." This novel features many of the same characters and relates to events of the previous novel.

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Form of creative work: novel
Has version, edition or translation: Ghosts
Title: Ghosts
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Different from: Ghosts criterion used: title refers to multiple creative works · applies to name of subject: Ghosts

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