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Ancient Light
''Ancient Light'' is a 2012 novel by Irish writer John Banville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin )〕 First published on 7 July 2012, the novel concludes a trilogy concerning Alexander Cleave and his daughter, Cass. ''Ancient Light'' was preceded by ''Shroud'' and ''Eclipse''.
==Plot and themes==
''Ancient Light'' is narrated by Alexander Cleave, a 60-something year-old retired actor, and takes place 10 years after the death of his daughter Cass in ''Eclipse''. Cleave begins to record his memories of a first, unlikely affair he had at age 15 with Mrs Gray, a married woman 20 years his senior. "Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother."〔Banville, John. ''Ancient Light''. Viking Penguin, 2012, p.3〕 The book moves between memories of this affair and his current state of grief he shares with his wife Lydia, touching on themes of family, love, grief, and the reliability of memory. His solitude is interrupted by an offer to play the lead in a film entitled ''The Invention of the Past''. The film is to be based on the life of literary theorist Axel Vander, the man with Cass when she killed herself in Italy. On the set Cleave bonds with Dawn Devonport, an emotionally fragile young ingenue mourning the death of her father. As Cleave continues to narrate his past relationship with Mrs Gray to its inevitable conclusion, the father-daughter relationship grows between him and Dawn.
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