- Psychological fiction, Fiction, Actors, Domestic fiction
"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.
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Contemplative, prestige, grave and intimate.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Banville
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Knopf, Anagrama, Picador
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780330482226
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First sentence
“At first it was a form.”
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