John Banville (1945) Irish writer
How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin (2012)
“Her voice was completely English. For some reason I had expected a foreign accent; but I could place this exactly. It was my own; product of boarding school, university, the accent of what a sociologist once called the Dominant Hundred Thousand.”
— John Fowles, book Daniel Martin
Daniel Martin (1977)
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