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Joseph O´connor - Ghost Light - 9780436205712 - KSG0026381
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Ghost Light

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Description for Ghost Light Hardcover. It's Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 440. 246pp. This leather-bound edition of Ghost Light, signed by the author, is limited to 75 numbered copies, this is number 69. Finely bound in full green leather, with decorated boards and title in gilt on front board and spine. With slip case

Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret.

Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, the son of a once prosperous landowning family, a poet of fiery language and tempestuous passions. Yet his life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Condition
New
Signed by the author
Yes
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780436205712
SKU
KSG0026381
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Joseph O´connor
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Ghost Light
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.
... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Ghost Light


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