GHOST LIGHT - SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING

O'CONNOR Joseph

ISBN 10: 0436205718 / ISBN 13: 9780436205712

Edité par Harvill Secker, London, 2010

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Signed by Joseph O'Connor to the Title Page. Both Book and Dust Jacket are in As New condition. This unread book is guaranteed to be a 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Publishers number sequence 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 confirms that this book is a first printing. The Jacket, which has not been price clipped, is protected by archival protective covering. The book is professionally wrapped and packed with great care with bubble wrap and placed in a special book box to ensure that the book arrives at your destination in perfect condition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: GHOST LIGHT - SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING
• Éditeur: Harvill Secker, London
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0436205718
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780436205712
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • General Fiction

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Synopsis

Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret.

Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, the son of a once prosperous landowning family, a poet of fiery language and tempestuous passions. Yet his life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Scarred by a childhood of loneliness and severity he has long been ill, but he loves to walk the wild places of Ireland. The affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is turbulent, sometimes cruel, often tender.

Many years later, an old woman makes her way across London on the morning after a hurricane. Christmas is coming. As she wanders past bombsites and through the city's forlorn beauty, a snowdrift of memories and lost desires seems to swirl. She has twice been married: once widowed, once divorced, but an unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat as her dazzling career has faded.

A story of love's commitment, of partings and reconciliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms, Ghost Light is a profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting novel.

À propos de l?auteur

Joseph O’Connor was born in Dublin. His books include eight previous novels: Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011) and The Thrill of it All. His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for outstanding achievement in literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

www.josephoconnorauthor.com