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."
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Hardback Editions
September 1989 : Hardback
| Title: First Light Author(s): Peter Ackroyd ISBN: 0-8021-1161-0 / 978-0-8021-1161-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Grove Pr Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1989 : Hardback
| Title: First Light Author(s): Peter Ackroyd ISBN: 0-241-12498-0 / 978-0-241-12498-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1985 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
September 1996 : Paperback
| Title: First Light Author(s): Peter Ackroyd ISBN: 0-8021-3481-5 / 978-0-8021-3481-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Grove Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1993 : Paperback
| Title: First Light Author(s): Peter Ackroyd ISBN: 0-14-017115-0 / 978-0-14-017115-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1993 : Paperback
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April 1991 : Paperback
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April 1990 : Paperback
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January 1989 : Paperback
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1989 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
October 1997 : Audio Cassette
| Title: First Light Author(s): Peter Ackroyd ISBN: 0-7366-4032-0 / 978-0-7366-4032-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
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