Paperback / softback
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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. '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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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:06/06/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780241986455
Information
-
Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:06/06/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780241986455
