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Ghost Light
  • Published: 2 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446435755
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Ghost Light

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2 May 2011
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A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation. Reissued in a new series look to coincide with the publication of his new novel, Shadowplay

A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation from the international bestselling author of Star of the Sea

'A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill' Irish Times

Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works.

Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom in America. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, whose life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Their affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is quarrelsome, affectionate and tender.

Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift of memories. Her once dazzling career has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat.

'Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit' Financial Times
  • Published: 2 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446435755
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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About the author

Joseph O'Connor

Joseph O’Connor’s fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

www.josephoconnorauthor.com

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Also by Joseph O'Connor

The Ghosts Of Rome
My Father's House
Shadowplay
The Thrill of it All
Where Have You Been?
Irish Male At Home And Abroad
Yeats Is Dead
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Praise for Ghost Light

A spellbinding read

The Times

A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill

Adrian Frazier, Irish Times

Ghost Light...has an astonishing command of voice and period detail, and offers an intimacy with the lives of others which is rare in fiction

Colm Toibin, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

A superbly written, magically evocative novel

Scotsman

A subtle wonder... Unmissible

Daily Mail

Joseph O'Connor is one of the most exciting novelists of his generation

Daily Mail

Throughout a complex structure with shifting timeframes, O'Connor's writing is compellingly beautiful and Molly is marvelously drawn. A captivating read

Guardian
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