A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation -- and of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms. Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom in America. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, whose life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Their affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is quarrelsome, affectionate and tender.
Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift ofmemories. Her once dazzling has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat.-- From the Trade Paperback edition.
约瑟夫•奥康纳
Joseph O'Connor
爱尔兰知名作家，1963年出生于都柏林，已著有18部文学作品，包括小说、随笔、剧本等多种形式。其中《海洋之星》畅销全球，为他在世界范围内赢得了广泛的声誉，荣获《爱尔兰邮报》文学奖、美国图书馆协会奖、法国玛德琳·泽普特欧洲文学奖等文学大奖，并被Vintage选入“未来的经典”书系。其后推出的《幽灵之光》《影子游戏》等著作亦好评连连，其中《影子游戏》获爱尔兰图书奖年度小说奖，并入围2019科斯塔奖决选名单；《幽灵之光》荣膺2011年都柏林“一城一书”。
