Description
A celebrated classical actor, Alexander Cleave, has fled public life after a humiliating collapse on opening night, retreating to the childhood house by the sea to live in self-imposed exile. There, he begins to write—wandering through rooms and streets, sifting memory and imagining the lives that shaped him—while a young woman and a child hover at the edge of his thoughts like unresolved questions. In Banville’s signature lyrical, exacting prose, *Eclipse* turns inward to examine the unstable nature of identity, the unreliability of recollection, and the ways family ties and personal responsibility can both anchor and haunt us. As Cleave confronts the performance at the heart of his existence, the novel becomes a meditation on what it means to be seen—and what it costs to try to disappear.
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paperback
Knopf
Published Jan 1, 2001
312 pages
ISBN: 9780754015284
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First Published
2000
Language
eng
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