---
product_id: 407076325
title: "Shroud"
brand: "john banville"
price: "€ 14.42"
currency: EUR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 5
url: https://www.desertcart.ie/products/407076325-shroud
store_origin: IE
region: Ireland
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# Shroud

**Brand:** john banville
**Price:** € 14.42
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Shroud by john banville
- **How much does it cost?** € 14.42 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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- john banville enthusiasts

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## Description

Shroud

## Images

![Shroud - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/416bmY7vguL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

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    Who are we really?
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2020*

I finished Eclipse, struggling on without much plot or significant events to follow. At first Shroud seemed to be going somewhere, people in taxis, hotels, cafes, a character with some character, but as all the taxis had mirrors, the hotels and cafes shiny windows in which the "self" could be contemplated if not "truly" seen, it soon became repetitive. Where was it all going other than into more and more introspective reflections ? Masks, reflections, identity, performances, performers, as ifs, our self (if it exists) reflected by whether or not we carry a shopping basket, the flowers in a hotel plastic or "suspiciously genuine" (what does that mean?) how many times the use of "like", "ironic" or "irony" in presumably their etymological sense. Sartre said something related to this in his image of the peeper through the key-hole suddenly becoming aware that he himself was the object of someone's watching him. I like John Banville's novels because it is nowadays more and more refreshing to read an intelligent and imaginative vocabulary in complex sentences, but, oh dear, what is it all about that it takes so many times to say it? Some of it, quite a lot I think, is in Yeats's "only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair".

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    Four Stars
  

*by P***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2015*

Not his best, but still very good.

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    Three Stars
  

*by I***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2014*

Beautiful prose at times but a slow read

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*Last updated: 2026-02-22*