Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Banville, John |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 6/8/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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 newnovel, is the bearer of a fearsome reputation asa literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee fromits 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 her purpose to destroy Vander or to save him—or simply to show him what lies beneaththe shroud in which he has wrapped his life?
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