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An edition of Ghost Light (2010)

Ghost light

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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.

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Publisher
Harvill Secker
Language
English
Pages
246

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Ghost Light
2012, Picador
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Ghost light
2011, ISIS
in English
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Ghost light
2010, Harvill Secker
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Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.914
Library of Congress
PR6065.C558 G46 2010, PR6065.C558

The Physical Object

Pagination
246 pages
Number of pages
246

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32101850M
Internet Archive
ghostlight0000ocon_d5u6
ISBN 10
0436205718, 1846553520
ISBN 13
9780436205712, 9781846553523
OCLC/WorldCat
520727901

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