Eclipse

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. [vi], 214, [4 (blank)]. Brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; crimson red endpapers. Jacket illustration detail, The Window, 1933 by Balthus. The first trade edition, preceded by the Bridgewater Press limited issue, published earlier in the year in 138 signed copies.

Signed by Author to title page.

Author's twelfth novel, a psychological mystery, riveting fable, and melancholy ghost story fused into an elegiac prose poem about an actor's midlife crisis. The first book in The Alexander and Cass Cleave Trilogy, followed by Shroud (2002), and concluded a decade later with Ancient Light (2012).

Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize for The Sea. "Mr. Banville is that rare writer who can pack all five senses into a declarative sentence." –The Wall Street Journal