"When I think of Ghost Light, the words climb over each other to be first in the queue: brilliant, beautiful, exhilarating, heartbreaking, masterly. It's that good." (Roddy Doyle)
"This is a great ambitious novel about love, loss, lamentation. Joseph O'Connor has the magic touch...I can't imagine many better -- or braver -- novels coming out this year." (Colum McCann)
"A brilliant novel." (Joseph O'Neill)
"As I read Ghost Light, I found myself going more and more slowly, because I didn't want to miss a single sentence. I found myself calling friends and reading passages aloud to them over the phone. This is a rare experience indeed. It is a rare and wonderful book." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours)
"Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit" (Hugo Hamilton Financial Times)
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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Zustand: Como nuevo. : En Dublín, en 1907, una joven actriz comienza un romance con un hombre mayor, el dramaturgo principal del teatro donde trabaja. Molly Allgood, una chica católica de los barrios bajos de Dublín, sueña con ser una estrella en Estados Unidos. Su amante, John Synge, es un genio problemático, cuya vida se ve obstaculizada por las convenciones y por la austera y temerosa madre con la que vive. Su aventura, a la que se oponen amigos y familiares, es a la vez pendenciera, afectuosa y tierna.Años más tarde, Molly, ahora una anciana empobrecida, se abre camino por las calles de Londres, marcadas por las bombas, sola, salvo por una avalancha de recuerdos. Su otrora deslumbrante carrera se ha desvanecido, pero su insaciable pasión por la vida la ha mantenido a flote. Basada libremente en hechos reales de la vida del dramaturgo irlandés más grande del siglo XX y la mujer más joven que fue su prometida en el momento de su trágicamente temprana muerte, Ghost Light es una aventura estimulante, apasionada y edificante en la narración de historias del galardonado autor de Star of the Sea y Redemption Falls. EAN: 9781846553523 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Ghost Light Autor: Joseph O'Connor Editorial: Harvill Secker Idioma: en Páginas: 256 Formato: tapa blanda. Artikel-Nr. Happ-2023-02-02-30b6698d
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