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Ghost Light

Ghost Light

Ghost Light
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Ghost Light Paperback - 2012

by OConnor, Joseph

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  • Title Ghost Light
  • Author OConnor, Joseph
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used; Very Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador, New York
  • Publication date 2012-01-03
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4106803
  • ISBN 9781250002310 / 1250002311
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.49 x 0.67 in (20.73 x 13.94 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Theater, Synge, J. M
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

"Ghost Light is [Joseph] O'Connor's vivid and sometimes visionary reimagining of the love affair between Molly Allgood and the Irish dramatist John Millington Synge. . . . O'Connor rides the wave of Irish eloquence . . . a jagged lyricism redolent of Seamus Heaney." --The New York Times Book Review

Dublin. 1907. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom as an actress in America. Her lover, the leading playwright 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. As she struggles to navigate the present, Molly's past threatens to consumer her.

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Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 02/05/2012, Page 28

About the author

Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His books include six previous novels: Cowboys and Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, and Redemption Falls. Star of the Sea became an international bestseller, winning the Irish Post Award for Literature, and France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. His work has been published in thirty-five languages.

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