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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Ancient Light
Author: BANVILLE JOHN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/09/2019
Imprint: VIKING
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
‘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
Pages: 256