“A virtuoso display of literary talent…brimming with sympathy and skill“ Irish Times
Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works.
Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom in America. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, whose life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Their affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is quarrelsome, affectionate, and tender.
Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London“s bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift of memories. Her once dazzling career has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat.
“Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit“ Financial Times
Joseph O’Connor
Ghost Light
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author of Star of the Sea
Ghost Light
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author of Star of the Sea
Format EPUB ● Seiten 272 ● ISBN 9781446435755 ● Verlag Random House ● Erscheinungsjahr 2010 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2757278 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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