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The Untouchable

John Banville

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A brilliant, engaging, and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's The Untouchable concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Maskell, a character based on the real Cambridge intellectual elites who famously spied on the United Kingdom in the middle of the 20th century. But Maskell--scholar, adventurer, soldier, art curator, and more--respected and still living in England well past his retirement from espionage, looked like he was going to get away with it when suddenly, in his 70s and sick with cancer, he is unmasked. The question of why, and by whom is not as important for Maskell as the larger question of who finally he himself really is, why he spied in the first place, and whether his many-faceted existence adds up to an authentic life.

Format:

Pages:: 368 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Vintage Books

Edition:: First Vintage International Edition, July 1998

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0679767479

ISBN13:: 9780679767473

kindle Asin:: B002QE3CS0

The Untouchable

John Banville

3.94/5 (2892 ratings)

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A brilliant, engaging, and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's The Untouchable concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Maskell, a character based on the real Cambridge intellectual elites who famously spied on the United Kingdom in the middle of the 20th century. But Maskell--scholar, adventurer, soldier, art curator, and more--respected and still living in England well past his retirement from espionage, looked like he was going to get away with it when suddenly, in his 70s and sick with cancer, he is unmasked. The question of why, and by whom is not as important for Maskell as the larger question of who finally he himself really is, why he spied in the first place, and whether his many-faceted existence adds up to an authentic life.

Format:

Pages:: 368 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Vintage Books

Edition:: First Vintage International Edition, July 1998

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0679767479

ISBN13:: 9780679767473

kindle Asin:: B002QE3CS0

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