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In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real.When renowned actor Alexander Cleave was a boy living in a large house with his widowed mother and various ...
Books. Eclipse. John Banville. Chivers, 2001 - Fiction - 298 pages. With his latest novel, John Banville--who has forged a brilliant international reputation with such works as The Book of Evidence and The Untouchable--applies piercing reality to a ghost story to create a profoundly moving tale of a man confronting a life gone awry.
Eclipse is certainly one of Banville’s most daring novels. While his 1997 novel, The Untouchable, detailed a vast historical panorama, Eclipse revolves around one man. Banville published his ...
Eclipse: A Novel Paperback – Jan. 1 2002. Eclipse: A Novel. Paperback – Jan. 1 2002. by John Banville (Author) 4.1 164 ratings. Book 1 of 2: Cleave Trilogy. See all formats and editions. Alexander Cleave has always felt "watched", even when he is alone. Becoming an actor, he performs his way through life until at he peak of his career he ...
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In this novel, Eclipse, Banville undertakes on of these subtle portraits to create a story of haunting insight, literally and figuratively. Alex Cleave is a moderately successful stage actor. In his mind he is terribly successful, but there are many hints throughout the book that all is not the way he paints it, either in his life or his career.
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U. The Untouchable (novel) Categories: Irish novels by writer. Works by John Banville. 20th-century Irish novels. 21st-century Irish novels.
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