Shadowplay - O'Connor, Joseph
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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…mehr

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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
Autorenporträt
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.
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Dazzling...the panache and subtlety of his prose perfectly match that gusto and creative finesse of the High Victorian world his novel wonderfully evokes Sunday Times