ANCIENT LIGHT

ANCIENT LIGHT

BANVILLE, JOHN

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CANONGATE
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Contemporary literature
ISBN:
978-0-241-95541-3
Pages :
256
Binding :
Paperback

'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'

In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure why she has chosen him, he becomes obsessed and tormented by this first love. Half a century later, actor Alexander Cleave - grieving for the recent loss of his daughter - recalls these trysts, trying to make sense of the boy he was and of the needs and frailties of the human heart.

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