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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780525949701
ISBN number: 0525949704
Label: Dutton Adult
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: September 20, 2007
Publishing house: Dutton Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 180319
Studio: Dutton Adult
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A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found.
A killer who stages the Bard’s extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities.
A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive. . . .
On the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley’s eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. But before she can reveal it to Kate, the Globe burns to the ground and Roz is found dead . . . murdered precisely in the manner of Hamlet’s father. Inside the box Kate finds the very first piece in a Shakespearean puzzle, setting her on a deadly, high-stakes treasure hunt.
From London to Harvard to the American West, Kate races to evade a killer and decipher a tantalizing string of clues, hidden in the words of Shakespeare, that may unlock literary history’s greatest secret. At once suspenseful and elegantly written, Interred with Their Bones is poised to become the subsequent bestselling literary adventure in the tradition of The Thirteenth Tale and The Historian.
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A long, long life of book reading and devouring all things Shakespeare and I must say this is one awful book. Implausible plot, cardboard characters, ridiculous dialog, tedious, unimaginative writing. Don't waste your time or your money.
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This exciting and well-written book has two intersecting storylines: one is the search for a missing play by Shakespeare, and the other is the quest to determine who really wrote the plays attributed to him. It's a fast paced book, and it takes the main characters through all of the various theories as to which of several suggested persons was the author of those famous plays. The journey goes from London to Boston to the English countryside to Spain and then to the American Southwest. There is an amazing amount of action for a book that raises often debated questions about the life qnd times of Shakespeare, and all of it appears quite plausible. While I never really spent much time wondering who wrote Shakespeare's plays (that's a question for debating academics), a lot of what is discussed is quite interesting. There's a somewhat satisfying ending, and also the knowledge that our principal character will be returning in another book. If it is as interesting and exciting as this one, I will cerainly be reading it!
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Across 416 pages of lively and well-written (though sometimes overwritten) narrative, Jennifer Lee Carrell can really get you going about the enduring multi-leveled fascination with Shakespeare. She toys with the recent fervent speculation about the "true identity" of the author of Hamlet and other gems, and throws in a trans-Atlantic murder mystery in the bargain.
She begins very well and since I have a photo of the new restored Globe on my wall donated by associate donors from Old Blighty I was intrigued by the possibility of a second fire at said venue, as well as the cold-blooded viciousness of the Howard family from the days of the Bard which fits with the knife-and-dagger spirit we now know about from Tudor England. Things I did not know or had reawakened from reading this spirited rendition were:
--the Spanish/English cloak and dagger connection c. 1600 thru the English Seminary at Valladolid.
--the provenance of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC
--the popularity of the Bard in the American West, which Carrell substantiated well.
--P.T. Barnum spurred the Brits into restoring Stratford by offering to buy it whole and send it back across the pond.
(She missed the odd fact that apparently Don Quixote was published the same day King Lear debuted on the London stage.)
But Carrell is a PhD in English Lit and it shows as she has her heroine, the well-named Kate--a Shakes tie-in she must have edited out--narrate the various claims to Shakespearean authorship from Bacon to Oxford and shedding many jewels of insight along the way. One gets the impression that this would be a good weekend quick-read for undergrads to skim through to come up to speed for a Shakes. class. She also spreads enough of Will's quotes across the text to keep real fans interested and also ties in the Sonnets, which it takes many Bard-idolaters a while to getting around to appreciating. She also draws the Abraham Lincoln/man from Stratford parallel which I thought was original with me i.e there's no explaining genius (I jest in part re Lincoln, my very first line of defence against the Oxford theorists).
A bit of overwriting (shoes squishing with water, windshield wipers keeping pace, etc) and a disappointing melodramatic conclusion in the caves of Arizona keep this from front-line stature amid the popualr Shakespeare glosses emerging, but overall a very gripping and intriguing read. I found it hard to put down.
So well done, Kate--er Katherine, and I look forward to your subsequent effort on Macbeth which I thought I had enough of in high school.
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I was actually enjoying this book as a light read, when I got to page 228. The subsequent page was 165 - and the book repeated previous chapters until reaching page 228 again and then skipping to page 293, which began mid word! I have never had this kind of printing error show up in a book and I have 1000's of books! So, now, I'm stuck with a book missing almost 50 pages. Thanks Plume publishing! So, if you do pick this book up, it's enjoyable up to page 228 - just make sure you check your copy for missing pages. Fire the editor or the printer or someone, please.
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Granted the task of making the discovery of a long lost Shakespearean play into a suspenseful and murder filled novel is a tall order. Ms Carrell handles it deftly enough. There is believable enough mystery over Shakespeare generated and the political intrigue that surrounded his plays to even make me want to research some of the scholarship discussed in the book.
The down sides would be the few times that suspension of disbelief was stretched to a snapping point (i.e. character of Athenaide and her "town") and that so much information was imparted that I got lost a few times in it all. It was fast paced enough to keep my interest going (even though I had a business trip in the middle of reading it.) Overall a good read but don't be expecting high prose. The author knows her Shakespeare and might have lessened all the arguments for and against each possible view or belief surrounding Shakespeare to help the story along a bit more.
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