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   Feb 1, 2011 · Vivid and beautifully written, Molly’s swirling, fractured narrative moves from Dublin to London via New York with luminous language and raw feeling. Ghost Light is a story of great sadness and joy—a tour de force from the widely acclaimed and bestselling author of Star of the Sea.

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   • Author: Joseph O'Connor

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2011/02/06 › booksGhost Light - By Joseph O’Connor - The New York Times

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   “Ghost Light” is O’Connor’s vivid and sometimes visionary reimagining of the love affair between Molly Allgood and the Irish dramatist John Millington Synge, much of it told in flashbacks from...

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   Jun 18, 2010 · Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor. Ursula K Le Guin looks back on the doomed romance of Synge and his leading lady. Fri 18 Jun 2010 19.05 EDT. W hatever the current fashion in fiction, there will...

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   What is Ghost Light about?

   • A story of love’s commitment, of partings and reconciliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else’s terms, Ghost Light is a profoundly moving and finally uplifting novel from the award-winning author of Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls.

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   Is Ghost Light a good book?

   • “Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light (Harvill Secker) is absolutely brilliant – a beautifully written love story and, somehow, a chunk of Irish social and political history.” “I can’t think of any book I’ve read recently which has so enthralled me and worked at every single level. Ghost Light is a wonder.”

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   Is Ghost Light based on a true story?

   • In 2002, he wrote the novel Star of the Sea, which The Economist listed as one of the top books of 2003. His 2010 novel, Ghost Light is loosely based on the life of the actress Maire O'Neill, born Mary "Molly" Allgood, and her relationship with the Irish playwright John Millington Synge. It was published by Harvill Secker of London in 2010.

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   What is a literary ghost?

   • A literary ghost can also be a neat way to link a story’s present with the past, a seductive trick for the expansively-minded novelist. The contemporary American ghost tends to be a little more complicated, however, than a Dickensian Ghost of Christmas Past rattling around in a nightgown.

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   Jan 3, 2012 · Brilliant.” ― The Daily Mirror “Joseph O'Connor's seventh novel, Ghost Light, will give days of pleasure to tens and tens of thousands of readers. It is a great love story, with extras: a virtuoso display of literary talent, a tribute to the Hiberno-English heritage of lore and lyricism and an interpretation of the Irish literary revival ...

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   Nov 10, 2010 · 3.49. 1,762 ratings278 reviews. Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America.

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   A story of love’s commitment, of partings and reconciliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else’s terms, Ghost Light is a profoundly moving and finally uplifting novel from the award-winning author of Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls.

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   Feb 1, 2011 · Vivid and beautifully written, Molly's swirling, fractured narrative moves from Dublin to London via New York with luminous language and raw feeling. Ghost Light is a story of great sadness and...