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Eclipse a novel

"Alexander Cleave, a famous actor who "took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be ... of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be", faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter, away from the world at large, alone, without an audience of any kind, he might finally stop performing, catch himself in the act of living, and simply be."--Jacket.

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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 itinerant lodgers, he encountered a strikingly vivid ghost of his father. Now that he's fifty and has returned to his boyhood home to recover from a nervous breakdown on stage, he is not surprised to find the place still haunted. He is surprised, however, at the presence of two new lodgers who have covertly settled into his old roost. And he is soon overwhelmed by how they, coupled with an onslaught of disturbing memories, compel him to confront the clutter that has become his life: ruined career, tenuous marriage, and troubled relationship with an estranged daughter destined for doom. From the Trade Paperback edition."
  • "Wanneer een ingestorte acteur zich terugtrekt in zijn ouderlijk huis om zichzelf te hervinden, wordt hij geplaagd door spookachtige en reële gebeurtenissen."
  • ""Alexander Cleave, a famous actor who "took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be ... of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be", faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter, away from the world at large, alone, without an audience of any kind, he might finally stop performing, catch himself in the act of living, and simply be."--Jacket."
  • ""Alexander Cleave, a famous actor who "took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be ... of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be", faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter, away from the world at large, alone, without an audience of any kind, he might finally stop performing, catch himself in the act of living, and simply be."--Jacket."@en
  • ""Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in 'a perpetual state of being watched' - even when alone. So he became an actor, and successfully performed his way through life until suddenly, at the peak of his career, he corpsed in the middle of the last act and staggered off stage, never to return." "Self-banished to his childhood home and cut off from his wife, Cleave begins to unravel the past and disinter his own identity. But his attempt to retire, to sift and discard the accumulated clutter of half a century of existence, is undermined by the house itself, brimming with lives, both ghostly and undeniably, robustly human. Memory constantly displaces Cleave's attention to the small, delicate details of the present. So too does his anxiety about the future, and the thought of his beloved but troubled daughter, Cass, tugging away at him like an undertow."--BOOK JACKET."

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  • "Ghost stories"
  • "Ghost stories"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Novels"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść irlandzka w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Powieść irlandzka w języku angielskim"

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  • "Sonnenfinsternis Roman"
  • "Éclipse"
  • "Eclipse a novel"
  • "Eclipse a novel"@en
  • "Eclipse"@es
  • "Eclipse"
  • "Eclipse"@en
  • "Sonnenfinsternis : Roman"
  • "Eclipse A Novel"@en
  • "Eclisse"@it
  • "Eclisse"
  • "Zacmienie"
  • "Eclipse : a novel"@en
  • "Eclipse : a novel"
  • "Eclips"
  • "Zaćmienie"@pl

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