The Cleave Trilogy Series by John Banville

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  • Eclipse (The Cleave Trilogy #1)
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    Eclipse (The Cleave Trilogy #1)

    John Banville

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2000

    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... more

  • Shroud (The Cleave Trilogy #2)
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    Shroud (The Cleave Trilogy #2)

    John Banville

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2002

    Axel Vander is an old man in ill health, recently widowed, a scholar renowned both for his unquestionable authority and the violence that often marks his conduct. In "Shroud"--as in all of his acclaimed previous novels--Banville gives readers an emotionally resonant tale, exceptionally rich in language and image, dazzling in its narrative invention.

  • La lumière des étoiles mortes (The Cleave Trilogy #3)
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    La lumière des étoiles mortes (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

    John Banville

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2012

    The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism and the sly humor that have marked all of John Banville’s extraordinary works... more

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