The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession

by Charlie Lovett

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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 centuy 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.
  • ISBN10 0670026476
  • ISBN13 9780670026470
  • Publish Date 28 May 2013
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Out of Print 20 April 2017
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Viking Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English