Athena

John Banville

first published 1995 Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, 1998 paperback

He is a man with a hidden, complicated past - some of it perhaps unspeakably violent, much of it spent in thrall to an almost slavish fascination with seventeenth-century Flemish art. Now he is lured, unknowing, into a scheme to authenticate a set of suspect paintings, and - as if in payment for his work, as if from out of the paintings themselves - a mysterious woman emerges into his life and merges with it. She see...

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Athena paperback · 2016 · Picador · 240 pages · 9781509822638
Athena edition · 2011 · Pan Macmillan · 246 pages · 9781447211792
Athena. paperback · 1998 · Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt · 9783596138463
Athena paperback · 1998 · Picador · 240 pages · 9780330371865
Athena. hardcover · 1996 · Kiepenheuer & Witsch · 284 pages · 9783462025644
Athena paperback · 1996 · Minerva · 238 pages · 9780749399955
Athena paperback · 1996 · Vintage International · 232 pages · 9780679736851
Athena edition · 1995 · Secker & Warburg · 232 pages · 9780436202223
Athena hardcover · 1995 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780517471821
Athena edition · 1995 · Alfred A. Knopf · 232 pages

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