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Arthur Phillips
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The Tragedy of Arthur
is an emotional and elaborately constructed
tour de force from bestselling and
critically acclaimed novelist Arthur
Phillips, “one of the best writers in
America” (The Washington Post).
Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young
man struggling with a larger-than-life
father, a con artist who works wonders of
deception but is a most unreliable parent.
Arthur is raised in an enchanted world of
smoke and mirrors where the only unshifting
truth is his father’s and his beloved twin
sister’s deep and abiding love for the works
of William Shakespeare—a love so pervasive
that Arthur becomes a writer in a misguided
bid for...
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Julian Donahue is in love
with his iPod.
Each song that shuffles through “that
greatest of all human inventions” triggers a
memory. There are songs for the girls from
when he was single; there’s the one for the
day he met his wife-to-be, and another for
the day his son was born. But when his
family falls apart, even music loses its
hold on him, and he has nothing.
Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his
life’s soundtrack—and life itself—starts to
play again. He stumbles into a bar and sees
Cait O’Dwyer, a flame-haired Irish rock
singer...
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From critically acclaimed
best selling author Arthur Phillips comes a
brilliant new novel that is part Victorian
ghost story, part literary and psychological
puzzle, part meditation on memory and fear.
The novel opens in London, the 1880’s, and
the Barton household is on the brink of
collapse. Mother, father, and daughter
provoke each other, consciously and
unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis...
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This darkly comic labyrinth
of a novel opens on the desert plains of
Egypt in 1922, before winding its way from
the slums of 1900s Australia to the
ballrooms of 1920s Boston, by way of
Oxford, the battlefields of the First
World War, a royal court in turmoil in
1700 BC, and an idyllic English country
house where nothing is quite as it should
be....
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PRAGUE depicts an
intentionally lost Lost Generation as it
follows five American expats who come to
Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their
fortune ...
Starting in July 2003, you may hear Arthur
Phillips read from his award winning
novel; see paperback edition for listing
of tour cities and other news...
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