First Light

Ackroyd, Peter

ISBN 10: 0241124980 / ISBN 13: 9780241124987

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, United Kingdom, 1989

About this Item

First Light by Peter Ackroyd. 1989. Hardback. UK first edition, first printing. Book signed by author to title page. Book in good condition, sunned to all edges. Jacket in very good condition, and has not been clipped. Clean throughout. Bookseller Inventory #HFB0045215.

Seller Inventory # 045215

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Light
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241124980
• ISBN 13: 9780241124987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 700 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Good copy - clean, no markings or inscriptions. Some tanning to page edges. DW has minor wear. Overall, good tight copy.

Review

First Light is not the darkest of Peter Ackroyd's novels (Hawksmoor has that honor), but fans of the macabre will relish its exhilarating combination of cosmic awe, ancient beings, and creepy underground tunnels, in a humorous suspense story as cleverly paced as a Hitchcock thriller. The story is that the excavation of a neolithic, astronomically aligned grave under the pastoral hills of Dorset, England, coincides with the startling reappearance of ancient stars (including H. P. Lovecraft's Aldebaran) in the night sky. A group of deliciously eccentric characters--archaeologists, astronomers, a stuffy civil servant, a stand-up comic, and vaguely menacing local villagers--converge at the site and collide with each other. As Gabriele Annan wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph, "Ackroyd is such a master of mood, of tension, angst, foreboding, frisson, but also of tenderness and exultation, that one is drawn into his tale as by a magus."