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The Illuminations by O'Hagan, Andrew is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Illuminations, the fifth novel from Andrew O'Hagan, a writer "of astonishingly assured gifts" ( The New York Times Book Review ), is a work of deeply charged beauty and one that demonstrates, with poignancy and power, that no matter how we look at it, there is no such thing as an ordinary life.How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Anne Quirk’s life is built on stories - the lies she was told by the man she loved and the fictions she told herself to survive. In her youth, she was an artistic pioneer, a creator of ground-breaking documentary photographs. Her beloved grandson Luke, a British army captain, has inherited her habit of transforming reality. He and Anne set out to confront a mystery from her past among the Blackpool Illuminations - the dazzling lights that brighten the seaside town as the season turns to winter."The Scottish author’s fifth novel is a lean yet rich family story built of small and crucial moments in memories and reality across three generations... The story is ripe for sentimentality, but there’s a journalistic cast to the spare prose and tight dialogue

Who reads The Illuminations?

Author

O'Hagan, Andrew

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374712730

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.38 / 5 (920 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14