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The Person Booker prize winning writer of The Ocean provides us an excellent, greatly moving new book about an actor in the twilight of his life and his profession: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of yesteryear within our existing lives.Is there any distinction between storage and creation? That's the issue that fuels this spectacular book, created together with the level of personality, the sly wit and the lyricism that have designated all Steve Banville’s remarkable works. And it's the question that haunts Alexander Cleave, an actor in the twilight of his career and of his existence, as he plumbs the recollections of his first—and possibly only—love (he, fifteen yrs old, the girl significantly more than twice his age, mom of his closest friend; the problem difficult, fascinating, consuming and lastly disastrous). .