John Banville Additional Author mixed material bibliography Picador 1997 monographic 1st American ed.

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352 A brilliant, engaging and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's <I>The Untouchable</I> 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 unexpectedly, in his 70s and sick with cancer, he is unmasked. The question of why, and by whom assumes less importance for Maskell than the soul-searching questions of who, ultimately, he really is, why he spied in the first place, and whether his many-faceted existence adds up to an authentic life. Espionage, Soviet - Fiction; Russians - Fiction 679451080 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) F BAN Unt 341 C2O library & collabtive (Fiction & Literature) 10000 341 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated