Lee Boudreaux at Random House signed for two new books by Arthur Phillips, author of “Prague,” a critically acclaimed novel that is still selling strongly in trade paperback.
The first of the two books, which she bought from agent Marly Rusoff for world rights, is an untitled book about an Egyptologist in the 1920s whose life is ruined when he desperately pretends to have found a royal tomb to boost his career. “It’s witty, inventive and brilliantly constructed,” said Boudreaux.
Random’s Claire Tisne is handling foreign rights.
(October 18, 2003 – The title of the first novel will be THE EGYPTOLOGIST)
