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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
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- Released
- 2012
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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
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, British Literature, Death, Southern Europe, Italy, Great Britain, Memories, Past, London, Young Adult Romance, Ireland, Dreams, Reflections and Contemplations, Irish Literature, Actors and Actresses, 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.