The Tragedy Of Arthur

The Tragedy Of Arthur Is An Emotional And Elaborately Constructed Tour De Force From Bestselling And Critically Acclaimed Novelist Arthur Phillips, One Of The Best Writers In America (The Washington Post). 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 Shakespearea 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 Novelwhich Includes Shakespeare's (?) Lost King Arthur Play In Its Five-Act Entiretycaptures 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 Arthursarthur The Novelist And Arthur The Ancient Kingplay Out Their Individual But Strangely Intertwined Fates. A New York Times Notable Book A New Yorker Reviewers' Favorite Of The Year A Library Journal Top Ten Book Of The Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book Of The Year One Of Salon's Five Best Novels Of The Year