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Shadowplay

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  • Running Time: 11:43 hrs
    Narrator: Finlay Robertson
    Publisher:
    Clipper Audiobooks, 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 11:43 hrs
    Narrator: Finlay Robertson
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2022
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component

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  • Contributor: ROBERTSON, FINLAY
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
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    2019
    Summary:

    From Irish PEN award-winning author Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay explores the characters whose loves and lives inspired Dracula. 1878. The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together. Henry Irving, the Chief, is the volcanic leading man and impresario; Ellen Terry is the most lauded and desired actress of her generation; and ever following along behind them in the shadows is the unremarkable theatre manager, Bram Stoker. Bram is wrestling with dark demons in a new city, in a new marriage, and with his own literary aspirations. As he walks the London streets at night, streets haunted by the Ripper and the gossip which swirls around his friend Oscar Wilde, he finds new inspiration. But the Chief is determined that nothing will get in the way of his manager's devotion to the Lyceum and to himself. And both men are enchanted by the beauty and boldness of the elusive Ellen. "Joseph O'Connor is a very great artist and storyteller. The quotient of enjoyment in his extraordinary new novel is stupendous." SEBASTIAN BARRY "There are few living writers who can take us back in time so assuredly, with such sensual density, through such gorgeous sentences. Joseph O'Connor is a wonder, and Shadowplay is a triumph." PETER CAREY, twice winner of the Booker Prize.

    Original Publisher: Rearsby, Leicestershire, Clipper Audiobooks
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781528863179