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Eclipse

By John Banville

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| eBook | 9781447211761

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Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future and more particularly for hContinue

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future and more particularly for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement. This humane and beautifully written story tells the tragic tale of a man, intelligent, preposterous and vulnerable, who in attempting to bring the performance to a close finds himself travelling inevitably towards a devastating denouement. ‘This unsparing, compassionate, humane book demonstrates again that Banville is in a class of his own’ Spectator ‘A contemporary fable of piercing sadness and melancholy beauty. . . This poetic novel deals with archetypal themes as well as painful truths about parental inadequacy and the limitations of love’ Sunday Telegraph ‘In Eclipse Banville has created another important, challenging fiction. The book is ornately written, heartless in an honest fashion, profoundly interrogative of ideas of identity and, above all, spectacularly beautiful. It is, in a way that so many contemporary novels are not, a work of art’ Observer

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  • Giving up the ghosts

    Eclipse John Banville 214pp, Picador £15.99 Buy it at BOL In John Banville's extraordinary family romance, a troubled actor returns to his deserted childhood home to exact a minute survey of his past and, by extension, of his mind. He finds it far le ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • With prose like this, who needs a plot?

    Eclipse John Banville Picador £15.99, pp214 Buy it at BOL For three decades, John Banville has been refining the exquisite, mandarin style that is his hallmark, and establishing himself as the finest writer of the confessional narrative since Nabokov ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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