Ancient Light

John Banville

eBook - 2012

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: “a devastating account of a boy’s sexual awakening and the loss of his childhood.... Seamless [and] profound ... An unsettling and beautiful work.” —Wall Street JournalIs there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love—an underage affair with his best friend’s mother. When his stunted acting career is suddenly, inexplicably revived with a movie role playing a man who may not be who he claims, his young leading lady—famous and fragile—unwittingly gives him the opportunity to see, with startling... clarity, the gap between the things he has done and the way he recalls them. Profoundly moving, Ancient Light is written with the depth of character, clarifying lyricism, and...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
John Banville
Online Access
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size2 GB
ISBN9780307960832
Release Date10/2/2012
Kindle Book
ASINB007SGM26Y
Release Date10/2/2012
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307960832
Release Date10/2/2012