While taking care of an elderly man, Rose realizes that they are being watched, and becomes caught up in a mystery going back to Elizabethan England involving Shakespeare, Marlowe, and an extraordinary black slave.
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While taking care of an elderly man, Rose realizes that they are being watched, and becomes caught up in a mystery going back to Elizabethan England involving Shakespeare, Marlowe, and an extraordinary black slave.
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Seller's Description:
Fair. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Stain at mid fore edge. Top edge library stamp has been covered by black marker. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
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Near Fine in Nearr Fine jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 217 pages, black quarter-cloth. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, gently read, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, but a touch of foxing to the fore-edges. In a near fine lightly worn dust jacket with original price present.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. DJ is scuffed and creased with edgewear. Boards have shelfwear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding.
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Boston. 1993. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0395660769. 208 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Will Hillenbrand. keywords: Literature India England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Multilayered, challenging and filled with mysterious beauty, this quirky novel will provide a rare treat for sophisticated readers who enjoy the works of Peter Dickinson, Jill Paton Walsh and Robert Westall. Aspiring actress Rose, who lives with her mother in a poor London neighborhood, has recently graduated from a prestigious secondary school which she attended on scholarship. When her mother falls ill, Rose takes over her job as cook and housekeeper for eccentric old Mr. Bernier, who lives in Salman Rushdie-like isolation. Mr. Bernier has acquired an Elizabethan manuscript, which he believes to be the diary of one Simon Forman, a scientist and a magician and necromancer and all sorts of other things, including friend to the playwright Christopher Marlowe and his lover, the black man known as Lazarus. Mr. Bernier dictates to Rose from the manuscript, recounting a tale of cunning machinations, thwarted love and the true origins of Shakespeare's plays; meanwhile, Mr. Bernier's enemies draw near. Both the 16th-century and the contemporary story lines are utterly engrossing. Dhondy's pulse-quickening novel makes crystal-clear the revolutionary power of the written and the spoken word. inventory #25602.
