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This Marlowe (Paperback)
Michelle Butler-Hallett
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Longlisted, 2018 International DUBLIN Literary
AwardLong-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit Awards"Complex, lyrical, and with
a profound sense of a world long passed and humanity's eternal
motivations." -- Quill & Quire"In Butler Hallett's hands, Kit
comes off as a fascinating and contradictory figure, part martyred
freethinker and part unscrupulous opportunist." -- Winnipeg
Review"Perfectly paced and gracefully wrought." -- Toronto
Star1593. Queen Elizabeth still reigns but grows old. Two rival
spymasters -- Sir Robert Cecil and the Earl of Essex -- plot from
the shadows. Their goal: to control succession upon the aged
queen's death. The man on which their schemes depend: Christopher
Marlowe ("Kit" to his friends), a cobbler's son from Canterbury who
has defied expectations and become an accomplished poet and
playwright. And spy. As the novel opens, Kit Marlowe, fresh from
betraying the target of his espionage, is himself betrayed.
Fighting to stay one step ahead in a dizzying game that threatens
the lives of those he holds most dear, including his beloved Tom
Kyd, he comes to question his allegiances and nearly everything he
once believed. In this psychological thriller, Michelle Butler
Hallett fleshes out the historical record with insight and the
rigor of authenticity. Her 16th-century England, surprising and
fresh, offers historical figures both famous and obscure, casual
descriptions of quotidian life, and vivid representations of
cruelty and violence that reverberate with echoes of our own time.
But it's Kit, the fascinating Marlowe, an endless source of
brilliance, passion and defiance, that brings the novel to life.
Writes playwright Robert Chafe, "History's Marlowe becomes [Butler
Hallet's] own, offering us his wit and wisdom and seemingly new
lessons about faith, ambition, loyalty, and yes, love."
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This Marlowe (Hardcover)
Michelle Butler-Hallett
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R811
R665
Discovery Miles 6 650
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Longlisted, 2018 International DUBLIN Literary
AwardLong-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit Awards1593. Queen Elizabeth
reigns from the throne while two rival spymasters - Sir Robert
Cecil and the Earl of Essex - plot from the shadows. Their goal? To
control succession upon the aged queen's death. The man on which
their schemes depend? Christopher Marlowe, a cobbler's son from
Canterbury who has defied expectations and become an accomplished
poet and playwright. Now that the plague has closed theatres,
Marlowe must resume the work for which he was originally recruited:
intelligence and espionage. Fighting to stay one step ahead in a
dizzying game that threatens the lives of those he holds most dear,
Marlowe comes to question his allegiances and nearly everything he
once believed. As tensions mount, he is tossed into an impossible
bind. He must choose between paths that lead either to wretched
guilt and miserable death or to love and honour. An historical
novel with a contemporary edge, This Marlowe measures the weight of
the body politic, the torment of the flesh, and the state of the
soul.
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