Le Guin & Her Cohort Wendell Berry Zadie Smith Parker Ross Macdonald & Margaret Millar Shel Silverstein Stanislaw Lem Stephen King Toni Morrison Ursula K. Wodehouse Philip Roth Rachel Carson Ralph Ellison Randy Watts Ray Bradbury Robert A. Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Lee Child Loren Eiseley Louise Erdrich Louise Penny Lovecraft and Howard Malcolm X Margaret Atwood Marianne Moore and Her World Mo Willems Neil Gaiman Norman Mailer Octavia Butler Pat LaMarche and the Charles Bruce Foundation P.G. Thompson & New Journalism James Baldwin Joan Didion John D. White, James Thurber, and Their World Eric Sloane Georges Simenon Hunter S. Authors Agatha Christie Albert Camus & His World Alistair MacLean Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator Anthony Burgess Arthur Conan Doyle Ayn Rand The Bronte Sisters Carl Hiaasen Charles Bukowski E.B.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.Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life - WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP Nothing Like the Sun is a wildly inventive, verbally dazzling attempt to enter the secret chambers of Shakespeare's inner life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing.īurgess 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' 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.įrom the Back Cover 'Nothing Like The Sun' is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. About the Book 'Wildly inventive' -Stephen Greenblatt, author of The SwerveĪ magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life, following young Will's maturation into sex and writing.

Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess