Ghost Light
Ghost Light
paperback
Published:
3 October, 2019
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Description
'A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill' Irish Times
Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works.
Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom in America. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, whose life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Their affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is quarrelsome, affectionate, and tender.
Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift of memories. Her once dazzling career has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat.
'Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit' Financial Times
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781529112627 |
| ISBN10 | 1529112621 |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Item Weight | 193 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A subtle wonder... Unmissible * Daily Mail *
Throughout a complex structure with shifting timeframes, O'Connor's writing is compellingly beautiful and Molly is marvelously drawn. A captivating read * Guardian *
A spellbinding read * The Times *
Joseph O'Connor is one of the most exciting novelists of his generation * Daily Mail *
A superbly written, magically evocative novel * Scotsman *
A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill -- Adrian Frazier * Irish Times *
Ghost Light...has an astonishing command of voice and period detail, and offers an intimacy with the lives of others which is rare in fiction -- Colm Toibin * Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year *
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Author's Bio
Joseph O’Connor’s fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
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