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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.
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Ancient Light, John Banville
- Language
- Released
- 2012
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Ancient Light
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Banville
- Publisher
- Penguin Export
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 244
- ISBN10
- 0670920622
- ISBN13
- 9780670920624
- Series
- The Cleave Trilogy
- Categories
- Tags
- Contemporary Fiction, British Literature, Death, Italy, Southern Europe, Memories, Great Britain, Past, London, Ireland, Dreams, Reflections and Contemplations, Actors and Actresses, Irish Literature, Suicide, First love
- Original title
- Ancient light
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- 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.