Praise for Elegy for April " Elegy for April ,' [is] the best and most assured of the lot." - The New York Times "The writing has an elegance and nimbleness that surpass almost all other genre fiction." - Los Angeles Times ".Gorgeously precise and expressive prose." - The Guardian "A beguiling read." - The Times (London) "Methodical, detailed and always gripping." - USA Today "[A] gorgeously sad and atmospheric book about family, lust, friendship and 50s-style repression." - The Seattle Times "Like its predecessors Christine Falls and The Silver Swan .
Banville's new tale of misdeeds is powerfully written, laced with lyrical visual imagery about a distant Ireland still getting used to the 20th century and peopled with sharply drawn characters." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Cool, atmospheric.Banville has raised the bar for the soul's-night genre." - The Dallas Morning News "The greatest satisfactions of reading Elegy for April come from the atmosphere of 1950s Dublin, in which coal-fire-assisted smog impairs visibility." - The Denver Post "In Elegy for April , he's nailed down the recipe, the style and pace that allows him to craft a story of suspense while filling it with sharp-eyed, bigger picture observations." - Time Out Chicago "A master of atmosphere; the fear and dread associated with hidden desires and deeds fairly leap off the page." - Library Journal (starred review) "[Banville's] engrossing third crime thriller set in 1950s Dublin finds pathologist Garret Quirke fresh from a stint in alcohol rehab.[Banville] is equally concerned with exploring the idea of family and loyalty as with spinning a suspenseful whodunit, and his depiction of a fragile father-daughter relationship is as powerful as the unsettling truth behind April's disappearance.
" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Quirke, the haunted Dublin pathologist and haphazard sleuth, returns in the third in [Banville's] superb series of sharply etched, nearly Jamesian mysteries.In [Banville's] atmospheric and penetrating works of Irish noir, pain, prejudice, greed, and violence brew behind lace curtains." - Booklist (starred review) "What sets it apart is the uncanny ability of [Banville] to bring his characters alive with flashes of piercing insight, whether Quirke's dealing with his stepmother-in-law or learning to drive." - Kirkus Praise for John Banville "Ireland's greatest living novelist.a literary polymath." - The New York Times "A grand writer with a seductive style." - The New York Times Book Review "The Irish master." - The New Yorker "One of the best novelists in English.
" - The Guardian "One of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today." - The Washington Post "[Banville's] books are like baroque cathedrals." - The Paris Review "Prodigiously gifted. He cannot write an unpolished phrase." - The Independent "One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty." - USA Today "Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy." - People.