District Sociology John Banville's Birchwood is the

John Banville's Birchwood is the elegiac story of the aristocratic decline of an eccentric family riddled with dark secrets

Publishing one hundred years after the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote

In Sam Knight's crystalline telling

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Published: 1983

District Sociology John Banville's Birchwood is theTitle: District Author: Tony Duvert ISBN: 9781939663306 Publisher: Wakefield Press Published: 2017 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: District describes, in ten vignettes, the sad, sordid and sinister aspects of a section of an unnamed French city, and the manners in which the ghostlike human entities that live and wither within it are molded, moved and absorbed by its spaces. A noisy