The bookman's tale : a novel of obsession
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Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
Format
Book
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Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
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Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
Physical Desc
352 pages, 14 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013.
General Note
Includes the first chapter of "First impressions" by author Charlie Lovett.
Description
After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries, he is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter learns the truth about his own past and unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays.