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Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret.

Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, the son of a once prosperous landowning family, a poet of fiery language and tempestuous passions. Yet his life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Scarred by a childhood of loneliness and severity he has long been ill, but he loves to walk the wild places of Ireland. The affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is turbulent, sometimes cruel, often tender.

Many years later, an old woman makes her way across London on the morning after a hurricane. Christmas is coming. As she wanders past bombsites and through the city's forlorn beauty, a snowdrift of memories and lost desires seems to swirl. She has twice been married: once widowed, once divorced, but an unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat as her dazzling career has faded.

A story of love's commitment, of partings and reconciliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms, Ghost Light is a profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting novel.

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"When I think of Ghost Light, the words climb over each other to be first in the queue: brilliant, beautiful, exhilarating, heartbreaking, masterly. It's that good." (Roddy Doyle)

"This is a great ambitious novel about love, loss, lamentation. Joseph O'Connor has the magic touch...I can't imagine many better -- or braver -- novels coming out this year." (Colum McCann)

"A brilliant novel." (Joseph O'Neill)

"As I read Ghost Light, I found myself going more and more slowly, because I didn't want to miss a single sentence. I found myself calling friends and reading passages aloud to them over the phone. This is a rare experience indeed. It is a rare and wonderful book." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours)

"Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit" (Hugo Hamilton Financial Times)
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A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece from the author if the international bestseller Star of the Sea

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  • EditoreHarvill Secker
  • Data di pubblicazione2010
  • ISBN 10 0436205718
  • ISBN 13 9780436205712
  • RilegaturaCopertina rigida
  • Numero edizione1
  • Numero di pagine256
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. It's Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 440. 246pp. This leather-bound edition of Ghost Light, signed by the author, is limited to 75 numbered copies, this is number 69. Finely bound in full green leather, with decorated boards and title in gilt on front board and spine. With slip case. 2010. Hardcover. First edition copy. . Signed Copy. . Codice articolo KSG0026381

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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. It's Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 440. 246pp. This leather-bound edition of Ghost Light, signed by the author, is limited to 75 numbered copies, this is number 69. Finely bound in full green leather, with decorated boards and title in gilt on front board and spine. With slip case. 2010. Hardcover. First edition copy. . Signed Copy. . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo KSG0026381

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