Книга: Banville John «Ancient Light»

Ancient Light

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In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen year old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty five year old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure why she has chosen him, he becomes obsessed and tormented by this first love. Half a century later, actor Alexander Cleave - grieving for the recent loss of his daughter - recalls these trysts, trying to make sense of the boy he was and of the needs and frailties of the human heart.

Издательство: "Penguin Group" (2013)

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Banville, John

▪ Irish writer
pseudonym  Benjamin Black 
born Dec. 8, 1945, Wexford, Ire.

      Irish novelist and journalist whose fiction is known for being referential, paradoxical, and complex.

      Banville attended St. Peter's College in Wexford, Ire. He began working in Dublin as a copy editor for the Irish Press (1969–83). He was later a copy editor (1986–88) and literary editor (1988–99) for the Irish Times.

      His first piece of fiction, Long Lankin (1970), is a series of nine episodic short stories. This work was followed by two novels: Nightspawn (1971), an intentionally ambiguous narrative, and Birchwood (1973), the story of a decaying Irish family. Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1981), and The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982) are fictional biographies based on the lives of noted scientists. These three works use scientific exploration as a metaphor to question perceptions of fiction and reality. Mefisto (1986) is written from the point of view of a character obsessed with numbers.

      The Book of Evidence (1989) is a murder mystery and the first of a trilogy centred on the character Freddie Montgomery. Ghosts (1993) and Athena (1995) completed the trilogy. The Untouchable (1997), along with Eclipse (2000) and its sequel, Shroud (2002), are novels that tell more stories of conflicted individuals. The Sea (2005), a novel that was awarded the Booker Prize, tells the story of a widowed art historian who revisits a childhood destination on the sea. Banville first used the pseudonym Benjamin Black for his crime novel Christine Falls (2006) and then its sequel, Silver Swan (2007).

      Banville's writing is experimental, challenging the conventional form of the novel. Common themes throughout his work include loss, obsession, destructive love, and the pain that accompanies freedom.

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Источник: Banville, John

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