The Ghost Theatre
Autor Mat Osmanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iun 2023
London, 1601—a golden city soon to erupt in flames. Shay is a messenger-girl, falconer, and fortune teller who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city’s fabled Blackfriars Theatre, where a cast of press-ganged boys perform for London’s gentry. When the pair meet, Shay falls in love with the performances—and with Nonesuch himself. As their bond deepens, they create the Ghost Theatre, an underground troupe that performs fantastical plays in the city’s hidden corners.
The growing fame of the troupe fans the flames of rebellion among the city’s outcasts, drawing Shay and Nonesuch into the dark web of the Elizabethan court. Embattled, with the plague on the rise throughout the country, the queen seeks a reading from Shay, a moment that unleashes chaos not only in Shay’s life but across the whole of England, too.
A fever dream full of prophecy and anarchy, gutter rats and bird gods, Mat Osman’s The Ghost Theatre is a wild ride from the rooftops of Elizabethan London to its dark underbelly, and a luminous meditation on double lives and fluid identities and the bewitching, transformative nature of art and power, with a bittersweet love affair at its heart. Set amid the vividly rendered England of Osman’s imagination and written in rich, seductive prose, The Ghost Theatre will have readers under its spell from the very first page.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781419767838
ISBN-10: 1419767836
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 144 x 230 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Overlook Press
ISBN-10: 1419767836
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 144 x 230 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Overlook Press
Notă biografică
Mat Osman is a musician, songwriter, bassist, and founding member of the British band Suede, as well as a composer for film and television. His writing about art and travel has appeared in the Guardian, Independent, Observer, and more. He is the author of the novel The Ruins and he lives in the UK.
Caracteristici
It has the theatrical magic of The Night Circus, the Elizabethan world of Hamnet, the imagination of The Binding, the page-turning storytelling of Pandora, and the uniqueness of The Heavens.
Recenzii
'A master storyteller, judging from his virtuoso novel . a great read [that] makes you look at a familiar historical period through fresh eyes'
'An excellent novel - riotous and abundant, full of vivid, dirty life'
'Rich and evocating; the kind of story you get lost in'
'The Ghost Theatre finds its way into the hidden corners of Elizabethan London, telling the story of a group of misfit actors. Beautifully written and completely convincing'
"Combining breath-taking world-building with vivid characterisation . An imaginative tour-de-force of theatre, magic, love and betrayal"
"This imaginative novel brings a raucous, evocative world to life"
'Wildly inventive and full of fantastical elements jostling alongside gritty realism'
A story of rebellion and magic, of mysticism and broken love in the streets and theatres and rooftops of Elizabethan London. Beautifully written, delicate and sad. I'm still haunted by it.
"A blistering ride"
Dramatic and gripping, The Ghost Theatre pulled me on a breathless journey of hope, beauty, wonder, tragedy, and the power of theatre.
"The star of the show in The Ghost Theatre is Osman's fanciful rendering of Elizabethan England, sometimes dreamlike, sometimes apocalyptic, depicted with such a wealth of sensory detail that it blurs the line between memory and fantasy."
"Smart, bold, and original, THE GHOST THEATRE brings to life a slantwise Elizabethan London where appearance is everything and nothing you see can be trusted. Every page is alive with the heady, dangerous energy of an opening night, and Shay and Nonesuch are unforgettable. For readers who like their historical fiction with imagination and flair, this book is a must-read."
A wild, vivid, eerie flight of imagination about the stories we live, and those we tell others. Utterly transporting.
Stunning! I devoured The Ghost Theatre and when I finished I couldn't stop thinking about it; all I wanted was to be back in that world. Beautifully written; rich and evocative with shades of Angela Carter.
I was utterly immersed in the world of Shay and Nonesuch, swept into the ordure and shine of Elizabethan London, felt the mad rush of performance and the darkness after it has passed. The last third, with its reversal and manic dash had me furiously turning pages, the events of Saturnalia as big as the city itself. It is vivid, heady and brilliantly staged.
From the first page, Osman brings the underworld of Elizabethan London to life with its child theatres, rioting apprentices and anarchic riverine world, its jumble of squalor and glamour. The line between stagecraft and witchcraft is erased, and now larger-than-life heroes raise child rebellions; pursue exalted, treacherous love affairs; see the future in a flock of birds. As a reimagining of history, The Ghost Theatre has the subversive power of The Quincunx, with an added dash of prophetic magic and fantastical extravagance. Glorious!
If you don't read anything else this year make sure you read this.
Written with wit, invention and a luxuriantly gorgeous prose style. This is historical fiction that's larger than life and twice as much fun.
'An excellent novel - riotous and abundant, full of vivid, dirty life'
'Rich and evocating; the kind of story you get lost in'
'The Ghost Theatre finds its way into the hidden corners of Elizabethan London, telling the story of a group of misfit actors. Beautifully written and completely convincing'
"Combining breath-taking world-building with vivid characterisation . An imaginative tour-de-force of theatre, magic, love and betrayal"
"This imaginative novel brings a raucous, evocative world to life"
'Wildly inventive and full of fantastical elements jostling alongside gritty realism'
A story of rebellion and magic, of mysticism and broken love in the streets and theatres and rooftops of Elizabethan London. Beautifully written, delicate and sad. I'm still haunted by it.
"A blistering ride"
Dramatic and gripping, The Ghost Theatre pulled me on a breathless journey of hope, beauty, wonder, tragedy, and the power of theatre.
"The star of the show in The Ghost Theatre is Osman's fanciful rendering of Elizabethan England, sometimes dreamlike, sometimes apocalyptic, depicted with such a wealth of sensory detail that it blurs the line between memory and fantasy."
"Smart, bold, and original, THE GHOST THEATRE brings to life a slantwise Elizabethan London where appearance is everything and nothing you see can be trusted. Every page is alive with the heady, dangerous energy of an opening night, and Shay and Nonesuch are unforgettable. For readers who like their historical fiction with imagination and flair, this book is a must-read."
A wild, vivid, eerie flight of imagination about the stories we live, and those we tell others. Utterly transporting.
Stunning! I devoured The Ghost Theatre and when I finished I couldn't stop thinking about it; all I wanted was to be back in that world. Beautifully written; rich and evocative with shades of Angela Carter.
I was utterly immersed in the world of Shay and Nonesuch, swept into the ordure and shine of Elizabethan London, felt the mad rush of performance and the darkness after it has passed. The last third, with its reversal and manic dash had me furiously turning pages, the events of Saturnalia as big as the city itself. It is vivid, heady and brilliantly staged.
From the first page, Osman brings the underworld of Elizabethan London to life with its child theatres, rioting apprentices and anarchic riverine world, its jumble of squalor and glamour. The line between stagecraft and witchcraft is erased, and now larger-than-life heroes raise child rebellions; pursue exalted, treacherous love affairs; see the future in a flock of birds. As a reimagining of history, The Ghost Theatre has the subversive power of The Quincunx, with an added dash of prophetic magic and fantastical extravagance. Glorious!
If you don't read anything else this year make sure you read this.
Written with wit, invention and a luxuriantly gorgeous prose style. This is historical fiction that's larger than life and twice as much fun.