Gertrude and Claudius: A Novel - Brossura

Updike, John

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ISBN 10: 0449006972 ISBN 13: 9780449006979

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2001

Riassunto

Set before the action begins in Shakespeare's Hamlet, this speculative novel follows the lives of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, as they wend their way towards adultery and treachery to ascend the throne. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Shakespeare’s plays have had many offshoots. Gertrude and Claudius, though, stands in a class of its own: a superlative homage from one imaginative veteran to another.”—The Sunday Times (London)
 
“[A] pearl of a book . . . a game for real stakes . . . Updike has used Shakespeare to write a free-standing, pleasurable, and wonderfully dexterous novel about three figures in complex interplay.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“A living, powerfully physical work . . . Updike is a superbly skillful writer.”—The Wall Street Journal

L'autore:

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0449006972
• ISBN 13: 9780449006979
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224