Name: Ancient Light - Penguin
SKU: 47187372
Price: 34.36 EUR
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Author: John Banville
ISBN: 9780241955406

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Physical Book

Author

John Banville

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Penguin

Synopsis "Ancient Light - Penguin "

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism and the sly humor that have marked all of John Banville’s extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave, an actor in the twilight of his career and of his life, as he plumbs the memories of his first—and perhaps only—love (he, fifteen years old, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring and finally devastating) . . . and of his daughter, lost to a kind of madness of mind and heart that Cleave can only fail to understand. When his dormant acting career is suddenly, inexplicably revived with a movie role portraying a man who may not be who he says he is, his young leading lady—famous and fragile—unwittingly gives him the opportunity to see with aching clarity the “chasm that yawns between the doing of a thing and the recollection of what was done.”

Ancient Light is a profoundly moving meditation on love and loss, on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives, on how invention shapes memory and memory shapes the man. It is a book of spellbinding power and pathos from one of the greatest masters of prose at work today.

John Banville

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John William Banville es un novelista irlandés nacido en Wexford en 1945, cuya prosa ha sido descrita como precisa, lírica y profundamente reflexiva. A lo largo de su carrera ha trabajado también como periodista, y bajo el seudónimo Benjamin Black ha escrito novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el patólogo Quirke. Sus historias tienden a explorar temas como la pérdida, la obsesión y la memoria, muchas veces con un tono existencial y filosófico.

Banville ha sido ampliamente premiado: ganó el Premio Booker» en 2005 por su novela The Sea, recibió el Premio Franz Kafka en 2011 y el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 2014. Entre sus obras más destacadas están El Mar (The Sea), Ancient Light y la novela corta The Newton Letter, que muestran su dominio de la introspección y de la narrativa reflexiva.

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