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  Eclipse (Paperback) By (author) John Banville

  

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  Short Description for EclipseWith 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. Breathtaking, even hypnotic, "Eclipse" is a virtuoso performance.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Published: 05 February 2002
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Thrillers
  • ISBN 13: 9780375725296 ISBN 10: 0375725296
  • Sales rank: 565,311

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Full description for Eclipse

• 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.""