Chasing Shakespeares
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"The best book about the Bard since Anthony Burgess's Nothing like the Sun"—Samuel R. Delany
Two graduate students, not alike in dignity: Joe Roper, dirt-poor aspiring Shakespeare biographer, finds a letter from William Shakespeare--saying he didn't write the plays. Posy Gould, a Hollywood producer's daughter from Harvard, never met a high concept she didn't like, and she likes this one.
Posy wants to expose Shakespeare as a fraud and make the movie. Joe wants to save Shakespeare.
The two literary sleuths head for London to prove their clashing theories. But they find themselves in a world where the London Eye looks out over Shakespeare's city, Hollywood producers rub elbows with Elizabethan spies, and mystery shadows the heart of Westminster Abbey and the lanes of rural England. And Joe and Posy find that, when you start chasing Shakespeares, what you find is not only who he was, but who you are, and how far you're willing to go...
"Wonderfully entertaining, thought-provoking, and highly readable--a stunning combination of fascinating fact and exciting fiction."--Sir Derek Jacobi
"Smart, sexy modern-day mystery reminiscent of A.S. Byatt's Possession"--Boston Globe
"A remarkable achievement, blending history and fantasy, past and present, ideas and emotions into a seamless whole that is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking.":--Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost
"Anyone who enjoyed (obvious predecessors) A.S. Byatt's Possession or Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time will be suitably charmed—and enlightened. Literate, polished literary entertainment."--Kirkus Reviews
"Marjorie Garber, meet Reese Witherspoon"—The New York Times
"Romance, intrigue, and the literary whodunit of our time--Chasing Shakespeares is a romp and I savored every moment of it."—Hallie Ephron, author of Careful What You Wish For
"A brilliant and moving work! Sarah Smith gives Josephine Tey a run for her money, revealing vividly a slice of history we never knew we could believe in, intertwined with engrossing modern characters."—Ellen Kushner, author of Swordspoint
"By page five I forgot I was reading to comment and began reading to devour. Chasing Shakespeares is breezy, erudite, never ponderous, a love story about how we make our heroes, and how they make us."—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
"Romance, intrigue, and the literary whodunit of our time—Chasing Shakespeares is a romp and I savored every moment of it."—Hallie Ephron, author of Careful What You Wish For
A Village Voice Summer Read--NEIBA Bestseller--Detroit Free Press four stars
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Created about 16 years agoAbout Sarah Smith
SARAH SMITH STARTED TELLING stories as a child in Japan. Her sitter would tell her ghost stories at night, and the next morning she’d act them out on the school bus for an audience of terrified five-year-olds. Back in America, she lived in an unrestored Victorian house, where every morning she would help her grandmother haul coal and break sticks into kindling to light the household stove. She’s loved storytelling and history ever since.
She studied English at Harvard, where she spent Saturdays in the library reading mysteries, and film in London and Paris, where she sat next to Peter Cushing at a film show and got to pet Francis Bacon’s cat. While teaching English, she got interested in personal computers; she and two friends bought 3 of the first 5 PCs sold in Boston. She realized that software could help her plot bigger stories, and she’s never looked back.
Her bestselling series of Edwardian mysteries, starring Alexander von Reisden and Perdita Halley, has been published in 14 languages. Two of the books have been named New York Times Notable Books. The Vanished Child, the first book in the series, is being made into a musical in Canada. Sarah’s young adult ghost thriller, The Other Side of Dark, has won both the Agatha (for best YA mystery of the year) and the Massachusetts Book Award for best YA book of the year. Her Chasing Shakespeares, a novel about the Shakespeare authorship, has been called “the best novel about the Bard since Nothing like the Sun” (Samuel R. Delany) and has been turned into a play.
Sarah lives in Boston with her family.
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