Béjart's Caravan - Stanard, Bonnie

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Résumé :
Traveling through the French countryside in their brightly painted wagons, the actors of the Augusto Troupe perform comedies and spectacles in villages and chateaux, and hope for a warm place to spend the winter. The group encounters religious fanatics, desperate maidens, greedy peasants, nefarious nobles, and the scourge of the plague. Their director B?jart tries to cajole his actors into performing his masterpiece correctly, while obsessively scribbling a possibly scandalous new play inspired by a mummy's ghost. Lead actress Isabelle dreams of the Paris stage where her rare talents will be appreciated. And Argon's beautiful voice has become a rough croak that he can only intermittently rely on, leading him to chase a cure-and maybe even to steal a powerful relic from the grave of the recently-deceased Moli?re.

Biographie:
Bonnie Stanard has been an editor, writer, and teacher in her native South Carolina as well as in Richmond, Atlanta, and Brussels. She is the author of six previous historical fiction novels, two children's books, and the chapbook Time Carries All Things Away. She has won various awards for her fiction, including InkSpot's list of Best Books of 2016 for Master of Westfall Plantation, the 2018 President's Book Award by Florida Authors and Publishers Association for the children's book Cat's Fur, and James River Writers finalist for Best Self-Published Novel of 2016 for Dust on the Bible. Her poems have won recognition with a Pushcart Prize nomination as well as placing in competitions such as Rash Award in Poetry, Carry McCray Award, River Poets Journal Contest, and Marsh Hawk poetry book contest.