by Joseph O'Connor · Harvill Secker · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846553523
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«Ghost Light» is the historical fiction novel by Joseph O'Connor, published by Harvill Secker in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Dublin, 1907. Young actress Molly Allgood, a Catholic from the slums, begins a romance with John Synge, the playwright of the theatre where she works, an older man tormented by conventions and his mother. Years later, now elderly and impoverished, Molly walks through bombed-out postwar London and recalls the relationship that defined her life. A fiction loosely based on the real relationship of Synge and Allgood.
Novel by the author of Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls. It is set between the Dublin of 1907 and a later London marked by bombs.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in figures of Irish theatre and relationships marked by differences in age and class.
Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist. His 2002 historical novel Star of the Sea was an international number one bestseller. Before success as an author, he was a journalist with the Sunday Tribune newspaper and Esquire. He is a regular contributor to RTÉ and a member of the Irish artists' association Aosdána.
