Shroud
  • Published:
    Sep-2002 (Hardcover)
    Jul-2003 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    416
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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 Milton's Lucifer,  Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville'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 “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?
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    •  
    • Jul-2003
    • Picador (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330483145
    • ISBN13: 9780330483148
    •  
    • Jun-2004
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 037572530X
    • ISBN13: 9780375725302
    • First Edition
    • Sep-2002
    • Picador (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0330483153
    • ISBN13: 9780330483155
    •  
    • Mar-2003
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0375411305
    • ISBN13: 9780375411304
    •  
    • Dec-2007
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307427730
    • ISBN13: 9780307427731
    •  
    • Dec-2007
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 144720736X
    • ISBN13: 9781447207368
    •  
    • Dec-2007
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743281838
    • ISBN13: 9781743281833
    •  
    • Jun-2003
    • Chivers
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0754087093
    • ISBN13: 9780754087090
    • Large Print
    •  
    • Nov-2003
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0786257482
    • ISBN13: 9780786257485
    • Large Print



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