Eclipse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375725296)

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.


Author: John Banville
ISBN-10: 0375725296
ISBN-13: 9780375725296
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/05/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.22w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2000 pg. 74
New York Times 06/03/2001 pg. 24
New York Times 02/03/2002 pg. 32
Entertainment Weekly 02/15/2002 pg. 61
Library Journal 10/01/2000