Ancient Light
Author: Banville, John
ISBN: 9780241986455
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 179mm x 111mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 179mm x 111mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
