Eclipse

ISBN-13: 9780330482226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str.

John Banville

Opis

This beautiful, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader; Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future and more particularly for his beloved but troubled daughter, all conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement. This humane and beautifully written story tells the tragic tale of a man, intelligent, preposterous and vulnerable, who in attempting to bring the performance to a close, finds himself travelling inevitably towards a devastating denouement.

Recenzje

This unsparing, compassionate, humane book demonstrates again that Banville is in a class of his own. Spectator

O autorze

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.