{"product_id":"shroud-9780375725302","title":"Shroud","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sea \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a splendidly moving, \"hypnotic\" exploration (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375725302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/18\/2004 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"John Banville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44507391557813,"sku":"9780375725302","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c76ed3bc-fdc4-43db-a71f-d44497dad87c.jpg?v=1722312139","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/shroud-9780375725302","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}