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Автор: O`Connor Joseph
Название: Shadowplay
ISBN: 9781609455934
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Модернистская и современная художественная литература

ISBN-10: 1609455932
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 400
Вес: 0.61 кг.
Дата издания: 21.04.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 213 x 140 x 38
Поставляется из: Англии
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SHORTLISTED 2019 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

Irish Book Awards NOVEL OF THE YEAR

Shadowplay by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph OConnor, is set during the golden age of West End theater in a London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper.

Henry Irving is Victorian Londons most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irvings theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the centurys most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but also on Stoker and Irving both.

Bram Stokers extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre, his early morning walks on the streets of a London terrorized by a serial killer, his long, tempestuous relationship with Irving, and the closeness he finds with Ellen Terry, inspire him to write DRACULA, the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published.

A magnificent portrait both of lamp-lit London and of lives and loves enacted on the stage, Shadowplays rich prose, incomparable storytelling, and vivid characters will linger in readers hearts and minds for many years.

Joseph OConnors Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, a New York Times, Economist Notable Book of the Year, and a Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller. It won Frances Prix Millepages, Italys Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is the author of nine novels and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Shadowplay was named Novel of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Costa Book Award.

Funny, smart, tender, wise.--Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin

A marvelous novel . . . Magnificent.--Suzie Feay, Financial Times

As much as this is a hugely entertaining book about the grand scope of friendship and love, it is also, movingly--at times, agonizingly--a story of transience, loss and true loyalty.--Sadie Jones, The Guardian

There are few living writers who can take us back in time so assuredly, with such sensual density, through such gorgeous sentences. Joseph OConnor is a wonder, and Shadowplay is a triumph.--Peter Carey, author of Parrot and Olivier in America

An ingenious novel . . . OConnors work is hugely impressive and utterly haunting.--The Sunday Mirror

A gorgeous, gorgeous book . . . A thing of great beauty.--Ryan Tubridy, RTE Radio

A mesmerizing read, beautifully researched.--Sunday Independent

Shadowplay totally swept me away . . . Its a bit like Moulin Rouge meets Dracula. I absolutely loved it.--Oliver Callan, Irish Examiner

Intensely atmospheric . . . As a romp through Ripper-ravaged London, Shadowplay is mightily entertaining. But as a meditation on hidden sexuality, it is powerful and poignant.--The Literary Review

OConnor is one of the best writers working today.--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple

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