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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 037572530X
ISBN13: 9780375725302
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jun 8 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375725302
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jun 8 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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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