Shadowplay - Joseph O'Connor

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Auteur(s) : Joseph O'Connor

Editeur : Europa Editions

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/06/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 400

Expédition : 612

Dimensions : 21.3 x 14.0 x 3.8

ISBN : 9781609455934

Résumé :

TARGET CONSUMER

• Literary Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Theater
• Gothic, Horror, Supernatural

KEY SELLING POINTS

Winner Novel of the Year An Irish Post Book Awards; Shortlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize, the 2020 Dalkey Literary Awards, and the 2019 Costa Book Awards

Reviews confirmed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and others

Hardcover publication

For theater enthusiasts who are currently unable to attend shows

The cult of celebrity meets literary ambition in Victorian London; Shadowplay is a must for lovers of the theater and late-Victorian/Edwardian era

TV rights for a series based on O'Connor's Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls were recently sold.

New York Times and international best-selling author

For fans of: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson; The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee; Little by Edward Carey; The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry; The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton; The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova; Arthur and George by Julian Barnes; Dracula and other tales of the supernatural

Based on a true story, real people

Sir Henry Irving (the first actor ever to be knighted): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Irving

Dame Ellen Terry (her career as a leading lady lasted seven decades): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Terry

Bram Stoker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker

Biographie:

Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. He is the author of nine novels, two collections of short stories, and a number of bestselling works of non-fiction. He has also written film scripts and radio and stage-plays. His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's 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.
In 2009 he was the Harman Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Baruch College, City University of New York. He holds an honorary Doctorate in Literature from University College Dublin, and received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. He lives in Ireland and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

Sommaire:
Shadowplay by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O'Connor, is set during the golden age of West End theatre in a London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper. Henry Irving is Victorian London's 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 Irving's theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the century's 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 Stoker's 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, Shadowplay's rich prose, incomparable storytelling, and vivid characters will linger in readers' hearts and minds for many years....