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Ancient Light
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Description
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'
In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings and in a rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure why she has chosen him he becomes obsessed and tormented by this first love. Half a century later actor Alexander Cleave - grieving for the recent loss of his daughter - recalls these trysts trying to make sense of the boy he was and of the needs and frailties of the human heart.
Praise for Ancient Light:
'Startlingly brilliant. Terrific - full of sadness and yearning' Sunday Telegraph
'Dazzling . . . captures a long-lost adolescent world of passion and desire' Independent
'Illuminating funny devastating. A meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death' Financial Times
John Banville was born in Wexford Ireland in 1945. He is the author of fourteen previous novels including The Sea which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He was recently awarded the Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Dublin.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2013-03-28
Publication Date:
2013-03-28
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0241955408
ISBN13:
9780241955406
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
311 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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