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Ancient Light

Ancient Light

by John Banville
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/09/2019
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A story of obsessive young love and overwhelming grief from the Booker Prize-winning author - now a Penguin Essential.

'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.

ISBN:
9780241986455
9780241986455
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-09-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
181x111x16mm
Weight:
0.14kg

"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

"Banville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence. A luminous, breathtaking work"
Independent on Sunday

"Startlingly brilliant. Terrific - full of sadness and yearning"
Sunday Telegraph

John Banville

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen previous novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize.

In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.

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