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Playhouse / Richard Bausch.
"A novel about a close-knit theater community in Memphis and one turbulent, transformative production of King Lear"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780451494849 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 332 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear > Fiction. Actors > Fiction. Theater > Fiction. Memphis (Tenn.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | FIC Bausc | 31681010311272 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
As renovations begin at the Shakespeare Theater of Memphis, a colorful cast of characters gather together for the fall production of King Lear, but soon tensions mount onstage and off, building toward a breaking point that places the very fate of the theater itself on the line. 15,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
From the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (âA master of the novel as well as the story . . . Effortlessly engagingâ âSven Birkerts, The New York Times), a sharp, affecting, masterly new novel about a close-knit theater community in Memphis and one turbulent, transformative production of King Lear.
As renovations begin at the Shakespeare Theater of Memphis, life for the core members of the company seems to be falling into disarray. Their trusted director has just retired, and theater manager Thaddeus Deerforthâstaring down forty and sensing a rift growing slowly between himself and his wife, Ginaâdreads the arrival of an imperious, inscrutable visiting director. Claudette, struggling to make ends meet as an actor and destabilized by family troubles, is getting frequent calls from her ex-boyfriendâand also the narcissistic, lecherous television actor who has been recruited to play King Lear in their fall production.
Also invited to the cast is Malcolm Ruark, a disgraced TV anchor muddling through the fallout of a scandal involving his underaged nieceâand suddenly in an even more precarious situation when the same niece, now eighteen, is cast to play Cordelia. As tensions onstage and off build toward a breaking point, the bonds among the intimately drawn characters are put to extraordinary testsâand the fate of the theater itself may even be on the line.
Deftly weaving together the points of view of Thaddeus, Claudette, and Malcolm, and utterly original in its incorporation of Shakespeareâs timeless drama, Playhouse is an unforgettable story of men and women, human frailty, art, and redemptionâa work of inimitable imaginative prowess by one of our most renowned storytellers.
