The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00DNH699S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 539 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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book lover in Honolulu said There is a great story in there - somewhere. This is an interesting book - packed with interesting characters, a love story, a history lesson, suspense, mystery, it's great right up until the end. I am a book lover and I liked the detail about how books are made and how old, cherished books are maintained, cateloged and handled. My criticism is the way the story's told - every chapter skips from There is a great story in there - somewhere This is an interesting book - packed with interesting characters, a love story, a history lesson, suspense, mystery, it's great right up until the end. I am a book lover and I liked the detail about how books are made and how old, cherished books are maintained, cateloged and handled. My criticism is the way the story's told - every chapter skips from 3, maybe There is a great story in there - somewhere book lover in Honolulu This is an interesting book - packed with interesting characters, a love story, a history lesson, suspense, mystery, it's great right up until the end. I am a book lover and I liked the detail about how books are made and how old, cherished books are maintained, cateloged and handled. My criticism is the way the story's told - every chapter skips from 3, maybe 4 different periods of time - it was so distracting and I felt frustrated at times trying to figure out where I was in the story. If it had been formatted differently I might have enjoyed it more - or maybe less of that jumping back and forth. Overall, i. different periods of time - it was so distracting and I felt frustrated at times trying to figure out where I was in the story. If it had been formatted differently I might have enjoyed it more - or maybe less of that jumping back and forth. Overall, i. , maybe There is a great story in there - somewhere book lover in Honolulu This is an interesting book - packed with interesting characters, a love story, a history lesson, suspense, mystery, it's great right up until the end. I am a book lover and I liked the detail about how books are made and how old, cherished books are maintained, cateloged and handled. My criticism is the way the story's told - every chapter skips from 3, maybe 4 different periods of time - it was so distracting and I felt frustrated at times trying to figure out where I was in the story. If it had been formatted differently I might have enjoyed it more - or maybe less of that jumping back and forth. Overall, i. different periods of time - it was so distracting and I felt frustrated at times trying to figure out where I was in the story. If it had been formatted differently I might have enjoyed it more - or maybe less of that jumping back and forth. Overall, i. "Lobster for the English Teacher's Brain" according to armybrat. This book is pure delight! The protagonist is the embodiment of every English teacher's dream: we all secretly would like to own a book store or be able to collect or work with antiquarian or rare books. Better than that, the characters in England are people we all know and teach about. Everyone teaching BEOWULF talks about Cotton Vitellius XV -- and here's Robert Cotton! and Green, and Will. I purchased this as a gift for a fellow teacher and told her I'd like to read it when she was done. She gave it to me in three days -- in the midst of the chaos of closing school for the year -- and told me "it is about o. carolyn c porter said To Be Or Not To Be describes this book. A wonderful story about books, and Shakespeare, and love. All are set in the 1600s as well as the 1990s, and at times the movement from then to now is a bit confusing. I wish I had used a pen and paper to jot down names and years. The sub-title, A Novel of Obsession, is fairly accurate although it took me a while to see who was obsessed, and with what. The story is about a grieving widower named Peter Byerly and his quest to validate or expose a volume that might or might not contain notes in Shakespeare's own hand. There is a sub-plot about a watercolor from the 1600s whose subject looks exactly like Peter's
The watercolor is clearly Victorian. Hay-on-Wye, 1995. But upon opening an 18th-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages. Yet the resemblance is uncanny, and Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture's origins. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman's Tale is a former bookseller's sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature's most tantalizing mysteries with echoes of Shadow of the Wind and A.S. As he follows the trail back first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter communes with Amanda's spirit, learns the truth about his own past, and discovers a book that might definitively prove Shakespeare was, indeed, the author of all his plays.. Byatt's Possession. Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Of course, it isn't really her