| Shroud Contributor(s): Banville, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 037572530X ISBN-13: 9780375725302 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from its conflagrations, with the wounds to prove it. And everything about him is a lie. Now those lies have been unraveled by a mysterious young woman whom Vander calls "Miss Nemesis." They are to meet in Turin, a city best known for its enigmatic shroud. Is her purpose to destroy Vander or to save him--or simply to show him what lies beneath the shroud in which he has wrapped his life? A splendidly moving exploration of identity, duplicity, and desire, Shroud" is Banville's most rapturous performance to date. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from its conflagrations, with the wounds to prove it. And everything about him is a lie. Now those lies have been unraveled by a mysterious young woman whom Vander calls "Miss Nemesis." They are to meet in Turin, a city best known for its enigmatic shroud. Is her purpose to destroy Vander or to save him--or simply to show him what lies beneath the shroud in which he has wrapped his life? A splendidly moving exploration of identity, duplicity, and desire, Shroud is Banville's most rapturous performance to date. |