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Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor5/21/2023 ![]() A stroke of genius., Ghost Light is a tender and compassionate love story, and a fine stepping stone to the majesty of Synge., Ghost Light is a spirited novel. One of the novel's great achievements is not just to display imaginative power but also to show how the imagination works. 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 as the fruit of settler and native, Protestant and Catholic. It is a profoundly sad story, but triumphant., Joseph O'Connor's seventh novel, Ghost Light, will give days of pleasure to tens and tens of thousands of readers. ![]() Ghost Light stands up to scrutiny on its own terms. ![]() Admirers of his writing will take pleasure not only in the ambitious range of Ghost Light and its depth of feeling but also in the nods in the direction of the author's immediately preceding novels, Redemption Falls, and, before that, Star of the Sea. O'Connor has fashioned a deeply moving, beautifully written story. ![]()
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