Description
| Product ID: | 9780330483148 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Cleave Trilogy |
| Title: | Shroud |
| Authors: | Author: John Banville |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea. <p>‘<i>Shroud</i> will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. It is hard to see what more a novel could do’ <i>Irish Times</i><br><br>Dark secrets and reality unravel in <i>Shroud</i>, the second of John Banville's three novels to feature Cass Cleave, alongside <i>Eclipse </i>and <i>Ancient Light. </i><br><br> Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems.<br><br> When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets – and carefully concealed identity – Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-03-05 |
