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Shroud - John Banville

English
2004-06-08
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a splendidly moving, "hypnotic" exploration (The New York Times) of identity, duplicity, and desire, starring a very old, recently widowed man with secrets and the mysterious young woman destined to either destroy or save him.One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Miltonโ€™s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator o ... Full description

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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a splendidly moving, "hypnotic" exploration (The New York Times) of identity, duplicity, and desire, starring a very old, recently widowed man with secrets and the mysterious young woman destined to either destroy or save him.One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Miltonโ€™s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banvilleโ€™s masterful new novel, is 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 โ€œMiss Nemesis.โ€ They are to meet in Turin, a city best known for its enigmatic shroud. Is her purpose to destroy Vander or to save himโ€”or simply to show him what lies beneath the shroud in which he has wrapped his life?

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Author John Banville
Publisher Knopf
Release year 2004
Cover type Softcover
EAN 9780375725302
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