We are reading this in our Book Club this month and I really enjoyed it. The description of that time is really well executed and the book is beautifully written. The book is loosely based on real people but takes quite a lot of dramatic licence with their actual lives but as I was not familiar with either of the protagonists' stories this did not in any way detract from my enjoyment of the book.
I would highly recommend this book and am looking forward to getting feedback from the other book club members.
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Print length256 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherHarvill Secker
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Publication date3 Jun. 2010
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Dimensions13.49 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
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ISBN-109781846553523
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- ASIN : 1846553520
- Publisher : Harvill Secker (3 Jun. 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781846553523
- ISBN-13 : 978-1846553523
- Dimensions : 13.49 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
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"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)
"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)
Book Description
A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece from the author if the international bestseller Star of the Sea
About the Author
Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His books include six previous novels: Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), 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 Fiction, an American Library Association Award, 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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This is written in the first person present tense, for the most part, which makes for a challenging read - you have to focus. The author is clearly in charge of his words - it’s beautifully written. There’s an elegiac air, obviously, given the subject matter, and it’s the subject matter that didn’t grip me so much.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2019
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I am always alittle wary of quotes enthusing on books,but not on this case.A superbly written,magically evocative
noval...quotes the Scotsman.and it is.! A truly beautifully book worth a read.
noval...quotes the Scotsman.and it is.! A truly beautifully book worth a read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2013
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This was a novel whose subject had great potential i.e the Irish playwright Synge and his relationship with a young actress. The voice of the novel was confusing and the construction poor. For example a whole chapter was filled with a single letter from the public which was used as a scene-setting device. The substance was flat and unconvincing, descriptive rather than narrative. It is a waste of money and time.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2019
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Excellent book - so well written it is almost poetic in places. I will definitely read more from this author.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 April 2013
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This fictional re-telling of the real relationship between the Anglo-Irish writer J M Synge and the young Irish actress Molly Allgood, puts flesh on the bones of the convoluted social attitudes of pre-First World War Ireland, tracing the developing tender but combative love story between two people from opposite sides of the social and racial divide.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2016
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A very rewarding read!
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