{"product_id":"shadowplay-hardcover","title":"Shadowplay - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER: NOVEL OF THE YEAR, \u003cem\u003eAn Irish Post\u003c\/em\u003e Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eFive Books\u003c\/em\u003e Best Historical Fiction Book of 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShadowplay\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e by \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author, Joseph O'Connor, is set during the golden age of West End theater in a London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irving's theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the century's most beloved actress, the dazzlingly talented leading lady Ellen Terry, who nightly casts a spell not only on her audiences but also on Stoker and Irving both. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBram Stoker's extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre, \u003c\/strong\u003e his early morning walks on the streets of a London terrorized by a serial killer, his long, tempestuous relationship with Irving, and the closeness he finds with Ellen Terry, \u003cstrong\u003einspire him to write DRACULA\u003c\/strong\u003e, the most iconic and best-selling supernatural tale ever published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA magnificent portrait both of lamp-lit London and of lives and loves enacted on the stage, \u003cem\u003eShadowplay\u003c\/em\u003e's rich prose, incomparable storytelling, and vivid characters will linger in readers' hearts and minds for many years. \u003cp\u003e\"Funny, smart, tender, wise.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eColum McCann, author of \u003cem\u003eApeirogon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Joseph O'Connor's magnificent novel does even more than fly, it soars.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Dirda, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST 2019 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST 2020 DALKEY LITERARY AWARD, 2020 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Dublin. He is the author of nine novels, two collections of short stories, and a number of bestselling works of non-fiction. He has also written film scripts and radio and stage-plays. His novel \u003ci\u003eStar of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e was an international bestseller, selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy\/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. \u003cbr\u003eIn 2009 he was the Harman Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Baruch College, City University of New York. He holds an honorary Doctorate in Literature from University College Dublin, and received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. 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