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by Banville, John
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0330339338
- ISBN 13
- 9780330339339
- Seller
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About This Item
London, U.K.: Picador, 2000. First British Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year for THE SEA.John Banville is also author of THE UNTOUCHABLE and, as 'Benjamin Black,' of the Quirk thrillers and other stand-alones. Alexander Cleave-a famous actor who "took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be . . . of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be"-faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter, away from the world at large, alone, without an audience of any kind, he might finally stop performing, catch himself in the act of living, and simply be. But the house is unexpectedly populated. There are Cleave's memories, which seem to rise up out of the house itself: of the years during his childhood when his mother took in boarders; of the beginnings, and the beginnings-of-the-end, of his career and his marriage; of the course of his relationship with his now estranged daughter; and of his father, who committed suicide when Cleave was still a boy. There are the corporeal, but illicit, inhabitants of the house: the caretaker, an unsettling presence "with the ageless aspect of a wastrel son," and the fifteen-year-old housekeeper, a "voluptuary of indolence." And there are the apparitions (ghosts? premonitions? visitations?)-a woman, a child, and a third, ill-defined figure-who Cleave feels are "intricately involved in the problem of whatever it is that has gone wrong with me." Struggling to determine what exactly has gone wrong, and to understand what part the apparitions play in his life and he in theirs, Cleave slowly comes to see the ways in which things and people-himself included-are not what they seem, and the ways in which, inevitably, they reveal what they are. As new, unread, first British edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] L149
Synopsis
William T. O'Malley ; gift ; 2006. Gift of William T. O'Malley.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022936
- Title
- ECLIPSE
- Author
- Banville, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0330339338
- ISBN 13
- 9780330339339
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London, U.K.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 208
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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