![]() ![]() ![]() The story of the short life of brilliant young playwright Christopher Marlowe is ostensibly told by an actor of the time so perfectly is the period voice caught that it is hard to believe the novelist was not transcribing contemporary documents. Like Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun 30 years ago (arguably the finest novel ever written about Shakespeare), this volume reflects the author's magical sense of language and his deep immersion in the Elizabethan ethos. ![]() It is an extraordinary reflection on the state of American publishing that the novel had to wait so long for publication here, and then be brought out only by a small but enterprising company like Carroll & Graf. Burgess's last book, published in England two years ago, shortly before the author's death, is a masterly piece of work. ![]()
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