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WINNER: NOVEL OF THE YEAR, An Irish Post Book AwardsA Five Books Best Historical Fiction Book of 2020Shadowplay by New York Times bestselling author, Joseph OConnor, is set during the golden age of West End theater in a London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper.Henry Irving is Victorian Londons 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 Irvings theater grows in reputation and financial solvency, he lures to his company of mummers the centurys 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.Bram Stokers extraordinary experiences at the Lyceum Theatre, 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, inspire him to write DRACULA, the most iconic and bestselling supernatural tale ever published.A magnificent portrait both of lamplit London and of lives and loves enacted on the stage, Shadowplays rich prose, incomparable storytelling, and vivid characters will linger in readers hearts and minds for many years.Funny, smart, tender, wise.Colum McCann, author of ApeirogonJoseph OConnors magnificent novel does even more than fly, it soars.Michael Dirda, The Washington PostFINALIST 2019 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR,FINALIST 2020 DALKEY LITERARY AWARD, 2020 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
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