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First Light (Paperback)

by Peter Ackroyd (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books (P); Reprint edition (April 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0345368878
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345368874
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,680,990 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars very good, 8 Oct 2007
By Didier (Ghent, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Light (Paperback)
Contrary to many others books by Peter Ackroyd this one isn't set in London, but that doesn't diminish its merits in the least. If you've read and liked other books by Peter Ackroyd, or if you like intelligent historical novels in general you can't go wrong with this one.

Ackroyd is a master at creating a mood of suspense and untold secrets, the book is driven on by a very-well crafted plot, and peopled by captivating characters. Very very good!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The novel with everything, 28 July 2005
This review is from: First Light (Hardcover)
This book has everything: comedy, drama, mystery, love, ghosts, madness, tragedy, brilliant characters, many separate but interwoven stories, plus a philosophical/emotional investigation into the beginning and end of the universe, time, death and the star dust we're all made of. Compassionate, funny, brilliant.
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2.0 out of 5 stars What on earth?, 26 Feb 2009
By N. P. Semmens "NickS" (Basingstoke, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Light (Paperback)
This is the only one of Peter Ackroyd's novels that I have read and I found it disappointing. The characters are caricatures, from the farmer and his sagely simple son to the unconvincingly ignorant and unsympathetic Lesbian from The Ministry. The metaphysical aspects are vague and inconsistent, the relevance of the star Aldebaran (a name given to it by Arabic speakers, of whom there were precious few in Bronze Age Britain) to the "Old Barren One" forced beyond reason. If you want satirical bucolic lampoon, Stella Gibbons did it far better in "Cold Comfort Farm". The skeleton of a much better novel lies within these pages; a shame that Ackroyd perhaps did not have the time or the vision to produce it.
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