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Shroud (The Cleave Trilogy #2) by John Banville is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Shroud (The Cleave Trilogy #2) about?
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. Secrets and reality both unravel in John Banville’s portrait of a dark and disturbing relationship, which is doomed to disaster from the very start.Axel Vander, a distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. 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."Shroud 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." - Irish Times"Banville writes with such assured subtlety, however, that he forces us to ask his questions." - Benjamin Markovits, London Review of BooksJohn Banville is the author of more than fifteen novels, a short st
Who reads Shroud (The Cleave Trilogy #2)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Banville
- Publisher
- Vintage; Vintage Books
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375725302
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.66 / 5 (863 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
