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Ancient Light

By John Banville

Ancient Light Contemporary literature

Ancient Light

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'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's suicide ten years before. Ancient Light is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid: the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief. It is a dazzling novel, funny, utterly pleasurable and devastatingly moving in the same moment. 'Illuminating, funny, devastating. A meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death' Financial Times 'Banville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence. A luminous, breathtaking work' Independent on Sunday 'Startlingly brilliant. Terrific - full of sadness and yearning' Sunday Telegraph
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2019-06-06
Publication Date:
2019-06-06
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
02419724850241986451
ISBN13:
9780241986455
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
146 g
Height:
113 cm
Width:
180 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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