Nothing Like the Sun

by Anthony Burgess

Overview

"Wildly inventive" —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve

A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life, following young Will’s maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of time and place, and the ordinariness that is found side by side with the extraordinariness of genius.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393346404
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/05/2013
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the "100 best novels" of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.

What People are Saying About This

Stephen Greenblatt

Nothing Like the Sun is a wildly inventive, verbally dazzling attempt to enter the secret chambers of Shakespeare's inner life. Cunning, alert, and deliciously irresponsible, Burgess brilliantly invents a private history of sexual desire and betrayal lurking behind the blank face that looks out from the First Folio.

Editorial Reviews

"Burgess can remake reality not only in his own writing but also in a new perception of the writings of his subject."

New York Times Book Review

"Nothing Like the Sun is a wildly inventive, verbally dazzling attempt to enter the secret chambers of Shakespeare's inner life. Cunning, alert, and deliciously irresponsible, Burgess brilliantly invents a private history of sexual desire and betrayal lurking behind the blank face that looks out from the First Folio."

Stephen Greenblatt

Burgess can remake reality not only in his own writing but also in a new perception of the writings of his subject.-- "New York Times Book Review"

Nothing Like the Sun is a wildly inventive, verbally dazzling attempt to enter the secret chambers of Shakespeare's inner life. Cunning, alert, and deliciously irresponsible, Burgess brilliantly invents a private history of sexual desire and betrayal lurking behind the blank face that looks out from the First Folio.--Stephen Greenblatt

From the Publisher

Shakespeare in his own stirring times, affected by historic events, suffering or triumphant with the day's news, meeting his fellow poets, and always living the secret life of the imagination….The more you know about the plays and the periods, the more you will appreciate the subtle touches that give their similitude to the tale.
—Times Literary Supplement (London)

Aileen Pippett

Nothing Like the Sun is a clever, tightly constructed book, reminiscent in its smaller and more sensational way of Mann's Doctor Faustus, full of the author's old verbal ingenuity...
—New Stateman

D. J. Enright

Shakespeare [is shown] in his own stirring times. . . . A brilliant book. . . . Taut and forceful.

Aileen Pippett - Times Literary Supplement [London]

Shakespeare [is shown] in his own stirring times. . . . A brilliant book. . . . Taut and forceful.— Aileen Pippett

Times Literary Supplement [London]