{"product_id":"ancient-light-1","title":"John (Author) Banville: Ancient Light [2012] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA story of obsessive young love and the power of grief, \u003ci\u003eAncient Light\u003c\/i\u003e is the best novel yet from the Booker Prize winner of \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I should like to be in love again, I should like to fall in love again, just once more.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAncient Light\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'He is a master, and his prose gives continuous, sensual delight' Martin Amis on John Banville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fourteen previous novels including \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He was recently awarded the Franz Kafka Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banville, John (Author)","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":51566029635923,"sku":"XE80670920617","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47476477788499,"sku":"XV80670920617","price":75.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47614692163923,"sku":"XG80670920617","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":47972033724755,"sku":"9780670920617","price":90.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/banville-john-author-john-author-banville-ancient-light-2012-hardback-59200699203923.jpg?v=1754401659","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/ancient-light-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}