Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life

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2013
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A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life, following young Will's maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of time and place, and the ordinariness that is found side by side with the extraordinariness of genius.

Synopsis

A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life, following young Will's maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of time and place, and the ordinariness that is found side by side with the extraordinariness of genius.

$21.97

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 27 Aug 2013
ISBN 10: 0393346404
ISBN 13: 9780393346404

Media Reviews

Nothing Like the Sun is a wildly inventive, verbally dazzling attempt to enter the secret chambers of Shakespeare's inner life. Cunning, alert, and deliciously irresponsible, Burgess brilliantly invents a private history of sexual desire and betrayal lurking behind the blank face that looks out from the First Folio. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Burgess can remake reality not only in his own writing but also in a new perception of the writings of his subject. -- New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, Honey for the Bears, The Long Day Wanes, The Doctor Is Sick, and ReJoyce.