"Nothing Like the Sun" is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing. It is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of time and place, and the ordinariness that is found side by side with extraordinariness of genius.
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'A novel which is a Shakespearean celebration all by itself. The Dark Lady, Mr W.H., play-making, politics, actors and the daily stuff of life wound together in Burgess Elizabethan, a dazzling prose style spun from a boundless obsession with words' THE OBSERVER
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Anthony Burgess is one of the UK's leading and most respected literary figures. He is most famous for the complex and controversial novel A Clockwork Orange. Allison & Busby are thrilled to be reissuing his classic novels.
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Burgess' attempt to weave the frustratingly few facts known about Shakespeare’s life into a novel that encapsulates the Elizabethan era is awe-inspiring. As a reader I felt sucked into the social hierarchy of the period: the aristocratic patron, the Bristol slave trade, rural Stratford and London street life. The book oozes with the smells and cacophony of Shakespeare’s world. For instance Burgess’ description of the public execution is harrowing, I feel the strain of the rope round the condemned man’s neck, the sharpness of the hangman’s knife as it rips through flesh and the wide eyed spectator jostling for a better view. In contrast the love Burgess’ Shakespeare reveals is passionate and soul searching. He evokes a naivety of spirit that explains why Anne Hathaway, why Southampton, why the Dark Lady. All delight the senses but at a price. And, of course, there is Shakespeare’s literature, alluded to with sublime subtlety and depth of knowledge. It is as if Burgess was there, at a performance, amongst the groundlings, making notes for some contemporary review. Because of Burgess I can stare into the eyes of a genius dead for almost four centuries.
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This is first class fiction from Burgess. Thrilling stuff. Even if you know nothing about Shakespeare's work you can enjoy it. Clever use of language (always what Burgess does best) and more accessible than Dead Man in Deptford. A must for anyone who likes historical or contemporary fiction, because it is so immediate.
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This is an imaginative and brilliantly written book, set in the time of Shakespeare written in the language of Shakespeare's day. Actually to describe it as brilliant would be an understatement.hu
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NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
Describes Shakespeare's childhood - love affairs, quarrels with his family, and travels around England. Earthy and basic. Captures Elizabethan life.
Published 25 days ago by ROBIN EDWARDS
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Oh my, but Burgess likes to play with language, doesn't he? And he does it so well!
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