The Newton Letter by John Banville

112 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
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In John Banville's The Newton Letter, a historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton’s mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted...

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