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Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades he has lived with the ...Show synopsisAxel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades he has lived with the knowledge of a tragedy of which he was both perpetrator and victim. Now, out of the blue, a letter arrives hinting at the secrets he has been hiding for fifty years. To find out just how much the writer knows about his past Vander arranges to meet her in Turin. But he is thrown into emotional turmoil by this encounter with Cass Cleave, a deeply troubled young woman desperate to discover a reason to continue living; and the meeting of the two leads inexorably towards disaster. Written in Banville's faultless, almost painfully beautiful prose, Shroud is a novel which is not afraid to ask deep questions, nor to answer them emphatically. It is a richly rewarding work from one of the most accomplished novelists of his generation.Hide synopsis
Shroud (Alfred A. Knopf) – Hardcover (2003)
by
John Banville
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf 2003
English
272 pages
ISBN: 0375411305 ISBN-13: 9780375411304
Axel Vander is an old man in ill health, recently widowed, a scholar renowned both for his unquestionable authority and the violence that often marks his conduct. In "Shroud"--as in all of his acclaimed previous novels--Banville gives readers an emotionally resonant tale, exceptionally rich in language and image, dazzling in its narrative invention.Axel Vander is an old man in ill health, recently widowed, a scholar renowned both for his unquestionable authority and the violence that often marks his conduct. In "Shroud"--as in all of his acclaimed previous novels--Banville gives readers an emotionally resonant tale, exceptionally rich in language and image, dazzling in its narrative invention.Hide
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