GHOST LIGHT remains at no 1!
June 30, 2010
GHOST LIGHT has entered its 5th week at no 1 in the Irish bestseller charts. It has retained the top spot since its publication at the beginning of June with continued strong sales. It sold over 2000 copies last week.GHOST LIGHT continues to receive rave reviews and was broadcast as Book On One on RTE Radio last week. To listen to the full week's broadcast, please click here.
This photograph, taken last week, shows Joe standing next to the portrait of Molly Allgood in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
Praise for GHOST LIGHT:
'When I think of GHOST LIGHT, the words climb over each other to be first in the queue: brilliant, beautiful. exhilarating, heartbreaking, masterly. It's that good.' -- Roddy Doyle
'... masterful ... With his previous novels, STAR OF THE SEA and REDEMPTION FALLS, O'Connor carved out a unique way of playing his storyteller's hand over a wide landscape, with the use of invented documentation and textual adventure. GHOST LIGHT brings that achievement to a new dimension, more specifically located and yet all the more masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit ... The writing is lyrical and moving.' -- Hugo Hamilton, The Financial Times
' ... remarkable, radiant and captivating novel ... On top of the biographical information concerning these two, Synge and his Molly, Joseph O'Connor has imposed a fictional overlay, and makes a vivid performance of it ... O'Connor's novel carries all the pungency and resonance of a particular era of the past.' -- The Independent