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Ancient Light
A Literary Fiction Novel by John Banville
Subgenres:
- Psychological Fiction,
- Memory and Reflection,
- Aging Protagonist
This book is for you if you're into...
- Actors grappling with the blurry edges of memory and identity
- Stories where past love haunts every present moment
- Lyrical prose that unpacks unreliable narrators
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career.
Is there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, love—an underage affair with his best friend's mother. When his stunted acting career is suddenly, inexplicably revived with a movie role playing a man who may not be who he claims, his young leading lady—famous and fragile—unwittingly gives him the opportunity to see, with startling clarity, the gap between the things he has done and the way he recalls them.
Profoundly moving, Ancient Light is written with the depth of character, clarifying lyricism, and heart-wrenching humor that mark all of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville's extraordinary works.
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