Eclipse
$19.99
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2026
Summary
The first of John Banville’s Cleave Trilogy, concerning father and daughter Alexander and Cass Cleave, Eclipse is a lyrical exploration of memory, family and identity.
Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories and anxiety for the future, and more particularly for his belov…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035076840 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035076845 |
| Author: | John Banville |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 131mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
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This unsparing, compassionate, humane book demonstrates again that Banville is in a class of his own. * Spectator *A contemporary fable of piercing sadness and melancholy beauty… This poetic novel deals with archetypal themes as well as painful truths about parental inadequacy and the limitations of love. * Sunday Telegraph *In Eclipse Banville has created another important, challenging fiction. The book is ornately written, heartless in an honest fashion, profoundly interrogative of ideas of identity and, above all, spectacularly beautiful. It is, in a way that so many contemporary novels are not, a work of art. * Observer *
About The Author
John Banville
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
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