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The untouchable / John Banville

By:

Banville, John

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books/ Random House , 1998, c1997Description: 367 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780679767473

Subject(s):

Espionage, Soviet -- -Great Britain -- -History -- -20th century -- -Fiction

DDC classification:

FIC BAN

Summary: The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence, for many years art expert to the Queen. Now he has been unmasked as a Russian agent and subjected to a disgrace that is almost a kind of death. But at whose instigation? As Maskell retraces his tortuous path from his recruitment at Cambridge to the airless upper regions of the establishment, we discover a figure of manifold doubleness: Irishman and Englishman; husband, father, and lover of men; betrayer and dupe.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		032686

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The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence, for many years art expert to the Queen. Now he has been unmasked as a Russian agent and subjected to a disgrace that is almost a kind of death. But at whose instigation? As Maskell retraces his tortuous path from his recruitment at Cambridge to the airless upper regions of the establishment, we discover a figure of manifold doubleness: Irishman and Englishman; husband, father, and lover of men; betrayer and dupe.

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