Shroud - Rilegato

Banville, John

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0330483153 ISBN 13: 9780330483155

Casa editrice: Picador, 2002

Riassunto

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 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.

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Descrizione del libro:

A richly rewarding work from one of the most accomplished novelists of his generation.

L'autore:

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330483153
• ISBN 13: 9780330483155
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 416