# Athena

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- Book: [Athena](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-banville/athena) ([Athena.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-banville/athena.md))
- Authors: [John Banville](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-banville)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-685-1
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1996-05-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. • " A strange and dreamlike...