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In 1907 Edwardian Dublin is a city of whispers and rumors. At the Abbey Theatre W. B. Yeats is working with talented John Synge, his resident playwright. It is here that the author of Playboy of the Western World and Juno and the Paycock will meet an actress still in her teens named Molly Allgood. Rebellious, irreverent, beautiful, flirtatious, Molly is a girl of the inner-city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. Witty and watchful, she has dozens of admirers, but it is the damaged older playwright who is her secret passion despite the barriers of age, class, education, and religion.
In 1950s postwar London, an old woman walks across the city in the wake of a hurricane. As she wanders past bomb sites and through the forlorn beauty of wrecked terraces and wintry parks, her mind drifts in and out of the present while she remembers her life's great love, her once-dazzling career, and her travels in America. Vivid and beautifully written, Molly's swirling, fractured narrative moves from Dublin to London via New York in language of luminous beauty and raw feeling that celebrates love and art. Ghost Light is a story of great sadness and joy--a tour de force from the widely acclaimed and bestselling author of Star of the Sea.
In 1950s postwar London, an old woman walks across the city in the wake of a hurricane. As she wanders past bomb sites and through the forlorn beauty of wrecked terraces and wintry parks, her mind drifts in and out of the present while she remembers her life's great love, her once-dazzling career, and her travels in America. Vivid and beautifully written, Molly's swirling, fractured narrative moves from Dublin to London via New York in language of luminous beauty and raw feeling that celebrates love and art. Ghost Light is a story of great sadness and joy--a tour de force from the widely acclaimed and bestselling author of Star of the Sea.
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"A subtle wonder... Unmissible" (Daily Mail)
"A spellbinding read" (The Times)
"A superbly written, magically evocative novel" (Scotsman)
"A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill" (Adrian Frazier Irish Times)
"Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit" (Hugo Hamilton Financial Times)
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"A spellbinding read" (The Times)
"A superbly written, magically evocative novel" (Scotsman)
"A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill" (Adrian Frazier Irish Times)
"Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit" (Hugo Hamilton Financial Times)
A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation - and of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1410437582
- ISBN 13 9781410437587
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages403
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