Elegy for April

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elegyforaprilby Benjamin Black (a.k.a. John Banville)

This third novel, set in Dublin of the 1950's and starring recovering (ahem, he's trying....) alcoholic Quirk and his tormented daughter Phoebe, is wonderful. A smoky, whisky-soaked read, filled with sex and yearning for true love in a corrupt world, where our tormented hero struggles to do the right thing.  Ahh.....better then Masterpiece Theater.  Banville is a wonderful writer (winner of the Booker Prize for The Sea) and this series is a great, true pleasure.  You want to read some of the sentences aloud, just to feel the elegance of them roll around in your mouth. Sort of like a sip of Makers Mark.