# Ancient Light

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- Książka: [Ancient Light](https://www.kolczanksiazek.pl/john-banville/en/ancient-light) ([Ancient Light.md](https://www.kolczanksiazek.pl/john-banville/en/ancient-light.md))
- Autorzy: [John Banville](https://www.kolczanksiazek.pl/john-banville)
- Wydawnictwo: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-645-5
- Liczba stron: 256
- Data wydania: 2019-06-06
- Język: en_GB
- Oprawa: Softcover

## Opis

'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's suicide ten years before. Ancient Light is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid: the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief. It is a dazzling novel, funny, utterly pleasurable and devastatingly moving in the same moment.