The Infinities [Paperback]

On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals—Zeus, Pan, and Hermes among them —who begin to stir up trouble for the Godleys, to sometimes wildly unintended effect.The Infinities—John Banville’s first novel since his Booker Prize-winning and bestsellingThe Sea—is at once a gloriously earthy romp and a wise look at the terrible, wonderful plight of being human.

“Dazzling. . . . Banville is, without question, one of the great living masters of English-language prose.The Infinitiesis a dazzling example of that mastery.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Unforgettable, beautifully written. . . . Banville is frequently compared to such masters as Beckett and Nabokov, and for years his books have been among the most haunting, beautiful and downright strange in contemporary literature. . . . If Banville is capable of writing an unmemorable sentence, he has successfully concealed the evidence.”
—The Washington Post

“IfThe Infinitieshas the bones of a novel of ideas, it’s fleshed out and robed as a novel of sensibility and style. . . . Sumptuous.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Ingenious. . . . [The Infinitiesdeals with] mortality, creativity, and the possibility of making something truly new in a world that seems increasingly exhausted morally, politically, and spiritually.”
—The New Yorker

“Entrancing. . . . Banville achieves real depth in this alternately grave and bawdy exploration of the nature of time, the legacy of grief, and the costs and sources of inspiration.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Seamlessly sophisticated fiction. . . . [BalÛ