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Shroud [Limited Edition, Signed]
by John Banville
- Used
- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0330483153
- ISBN 13
- 9780330483155
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Picador / Joe McCann, 2002. Fine. London: Picador, 2002. First Edition, Limited to 80 copies signed by the author of which this is no. 54 of sixty bound in cloth. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, printed paper spine and upper cover labels; [6],407pp. Fine condition. Signed by the author on colophon.
The second volume in Irish author John Banville's trilogy featuring Alexander and Cass Cleave, this a roman à clef based in part on the scandal surrounding literary critic Paul de Man and the surfacing of anti-Semitic articles he penned during World War II.
The second volume in Irish author John Banville's trilogy featuring Alexander and Cass Cleave, this a roman à clef based in part on the scandal surrounding literary critic Paul de Man and the surfacing of anti-Semitic articles he penned during World War II.
Synopsis
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin , was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn , Birchwood , Doctor Copernicus , Kepler , The Newton Letter , Mefisto , The Book of Evidence (which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize), Ghosts , Athena , The Untouchable , and Eclipse . He lives in Dublin.
Reviews
On Mar 31 2010, Serendipity said:
Warning: here be SPOILERS....Another fine example of Banville's eloquent prose being used to tell a twisted, deceitful story concerning notions of the Self and reality. Axel Vander, the snobbish, literate, ageing narrator, has fled the sunny coast of California (where he is a celebrated academic modelled in part after Paul De Man) and returned to the Old World; specifically Turin, to meet and confront a young research student who has unwittingly uncovered a great lie at the heart of Vander's life: that as a youth in Holland he wrote anti-semitic articles in a right-wing journal. But there are deeper secrets than that, not the least of which is that he isn't Axel Vander at all, but a Jewish friend of Vander's who appropriated his name after hearing that Vander had been killed in the early part of the war. Now old and dying, Vander begins an impossible love-affair with his young un-masker. The setting, of course, is significant as the Shroud of Turin is both an object of worship and a fake. As usual with Banville, the prose is exquisite to the point where excessive praise seems superfluous. The plot is of less interest than the delicious descriptive language, and the setting allows Banville to explore the meaning of "meaning", fakery, etc, along with his requisite dose of sex, unhappy ghosts, haunting memories, lies, tenderness and torture. Brilliant. I waited a long time to get around to reading this novel, and I wasn't disappointed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8471
- Title
- Shroud [Limited Edition, Signed]
- Author
- John Banville
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0330483153
- ISBN 13
- 9780330483155
- Publisher
- Picador / Joe McCann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
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