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050 00 $aPR6052.A57$bE25 2001
082 00 $a823/.914$221
100 1 $aBanville, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50022076
245 10 $aEclipse /$ca novel by John Banville.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A Knopf,$c2001.
300 $a211 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A Borzoi book."
520 1 $a"Alexander Cleave - a famous actor who "took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be ... of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be" - faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career.
520 8 $aIn physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter, away from the world at large, alone, without an audience of any kind, he might finally stop performing, catch himself in the act of living, and simply be.".
520 8 $a"But the house is unexpectedly populated. There are Cleave's memories, which seem to rise up out of the house itself: of the years during his childhood when his mother took in boarders; of the beginnings, and the beginnings-of-the-end, of his career and his marriage; of the course of his relationship with his now estranged daughter; and of his father, who committed suicide when Cleave was still a boy.
520 8 $aThere are the corporeal, but illicit, inhabitants of the house: the caretaker, an unsettling presence "with the ageless aspect of a wastrel son," and the fifteen-year-old housekeeper, a "voluptuary of indolence." And there are the apparitions (ghosts? premonitions? visitations?) - a woman, a child, and a third, ill-defined figure - who Cleave feels are "intricately involved in the problem of whatever it is that has gone wrong with me."".
520 8 $a"Struggling to determine what exactly has gone wrong, and to understand what part the apparitions play in his life and he in theirs, Cleave slowly comes to see the ways in which things and people - himself included - are not what they seem, and the ways in which, inevitably, they reveal what they are."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aActors$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100547
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
655 7 $aGhost stories.$2gsafd
852 00 $bbar$hPR6052.A57$iE25 2001