{"product_id":"ancient-light-pb-a-w2","title":"John Banville: ANCIENT LIGHT PB-A W2 [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Illuminating, funny, devastating. A meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Banville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence. A luminous, breathtaking work' \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Startlingly brilliant. Terrific - full of sadness and yearning' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banville, John","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44253591372066,"sku":"9780241986455","price":11.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/banville-john-ancient-light-pb-a-w2-9780241986455-40251141128482.jpg?v=1672751153","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/ancient-light-pb-a-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}