The bookman's tale
Subtitle: a novel of obsession
By: Charlie Lovett
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780670026470; 9781101622803
Subjects: Authorship; Widowers; Booksellers and bookselling; Americans; Fiction
Description: After the death of his wife, Peter Byerly, a young antiquarian bookseller, relocates from the States to the English countryside, where he hopes to rediscover the joys of life through his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. But when he opens an eighteenth-century study on Shakespeare forgeries, he is shocked to find a Victorian portrait strikingly similar to his wife tumble out of its pages, and becomes obsessed with tracking down its origins. As he follows the trail back to the nineteenth century and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter learns the truth about his own past and unearths a book that might prove that Shakespeare was indeed the author of all his plays.