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    Ancient Light by Banville, John;

    Series: Penguin Essentials; 109;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Penguin
    • Date of Publication 6 June 2019

    • ISBN 9780241986455
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 181x111x16 mm
    • Weight 142 g
    • Language English
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    Long 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

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