Description
An aging, recently widowed literary dandy—Axel Vander—narrates his own unraveling with dazzling intelligence and unsettling unreliability, as a threatening letter from a young woman pulls the past into the present. Set against the aftershocks of Europe’s catastrophes, his story turns on secrets, moral compromise, and the uneasy performance of intellect when it masks cruelty. As Vander is drawn into a web of recognition and accusation, the novel explores obsession, guilt, and the ways language can both seduce and condemn. In Banville’s signature style—lyrical, exacting, and darkly ironic—*Shroud* delivers a hard, cruel meditation on identity and the stories we tell to survive them.
Available Editions
hardcover
Picador
Published Sep 20, 2002
416 pages
ISBN: 9780330483155
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Details
First Published
2002
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Shroud by John Banville.