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Random House
April 2011
On Sale: April 19, 2011
384 pages
ISBN: 1400066476
EAN: 9781400066476
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Fiction
Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young man struggling
with a larger-than-life father, a con artist who works
wonders of deception but is a most unreliable parent. Arthur
is raised in an enchanted world of smoke and mirrors where
the only unshifting truth is his father’s and his beloved
twin sister’s deep and abiding love for the works of William
Shakespeare—a love so pervasive that Arthur becomes a writer
in a misguided bid for their approval and affection. Years later, Arthur’s father, imprisoned for decades and
nearing the end of his life, shares with Arthur a treasure
he’s kept secret for half a century: a previously unknown
play by Shakespeare, titled The Tragedy of Arthur. But
Arthur and his sister also inherit their father’s mission:
to see the play published and acknowledged as the Bard’s
last great gift to humanity. . . . Unless it’s their father’s last great con. By turns hilarious and haunting, this virtuosic novel—which
includes Shakespeare’s (?) lost King Arthur play in its
five-act entirety—captures the very essence of romantic and
familial love and betrayal. The Tragedy of Arthur explores
the tension between storytelling and truth-telling, the
thirst for originality in all our lives, and the act of
literary mythmaking, both now and four centuries ago, as the
two Arthurs—Arthur the novelist and Arthur the ancient
king—play out their individual but strangely intertwined fates.
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