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Ancient light / John Banville.
LIBRA PR6052.A57 A53 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banville, John
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older men--Fiction.
- Older men.
- Actors--Fiction.
- Actors.
- Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
- Reminiscing in old age.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Memory--Fiction.
- Memory.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
- Summary:
- An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
- "Originally published in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd., London, in 2012"--T.p. verso.
- Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, 2012.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780307957054
- 0307957055
- OCLC:
- 773021782
- Publisher Number:
- 40021398788
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