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"I have carried the memory of that moment through a whole half century, as if it were the emblem of something final, precious and irretrievable," says the narrator of Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel of a relatively trivial moment. But when he recalls the mother and daughter whom he first loved as a barely pubescent child - whose presence pulled him out of the shadow of his paltry self - he observes, "The tw...Log In or Sign Up to Read More