Ghost Light
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author of Star of the Sea
$23.78
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2019
Summary
A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation from the international bestselling author of Star of the Sea.
“A virtuoso display of literary talent…brimming with sympathy and skill.” - Irish Times
Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works.
Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529112627 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529112621 |
| Author: | Joseph O'Connor |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A subtle wonder… Unmissible * Daily Mail *
Throughout a complex structure with shifting timeframes, O’Connor’s writing is compellingly beautiful and Molly is marvelously drawn. A captivating read * Guardian *
A spellbinding read * The Times *
Joseph O’Connor is one of the most exciting novelists of his generation * Daily Mail *
A superbly written, magically evocative novel * Scotsman *
A virtuoso display of literary talent…brimming with sympathy and skill – Adrian Frazier * Irish Times *
Ghost Light…has an astonishing command of voice and period detail, and offers an intimacy with the lives of others which is rare in fiction – Colm Toibin * Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year *
Joseph O'Connor
JOSEPH O’CONNOR was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (awarded the American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Nielsen Golden Book Award, and Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book 2011), Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist), and the previous books of his Rome Escape Line trilogy, My Father’s House (Hot Press Novel of the Year 2023) and The Ghosts of Rome (Irish Book Awards Book of the Year 2025). His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 was appointed Frank McCourt Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
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