
Ancient Light
by John Banville
Title:
Ancient Light
Author:
John Banville
Series (if any):
Penguin Essentials
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780241986455
EAN:
9780241986455
Publication Date:
06/06/2019
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
268
Dimensions (mm):
176 x 128 x 17
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
''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






























