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The Invention of Memory
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Simon Loftus

Ancient Light by John Banville

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A contemplative and elegaic novel, whose narrator - an ageing actor - reminisces about his adolescent sexual awakening with the mother of his best friend, the suicide of his daughter ten years ago and his current involvement in shooting a film. Like much of Banville's work, Ancient Light takes as its subject the instability of memory, and is often a little verbose. His attention to minutiae, however, is vivid and exquisite.
The Sea by John Banville

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Set in an Irish seaside town, our sixty year old narrator comes to relive an episode in his childhood while escaping the bleak reality of his wife's recent death. Winner of the Booker prize and undoubtedly lyrical and well-observed, some however, may find the narrator a touch verbose and the plot on the slow side.