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Title: A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-7867-1152-3 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Challenging but worth it
Comment: Our book group comprised of many retired teachers read this book recently; some members balked at its difficulty, but those who persevered felt that reading the book was a very rich experience. How else could you really sense the danger, the intrigue, the raw energy, and the vitality of the times. Burgess brings the period alive brilliantly through his inventive language and ironic humor. The book gets easier as it goes along, so stick with it; you'll be rewarded.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stick With It, It's Worth It
Comment: While some have said this is a difficult book (and I must admit I felt that way at first) if you relax and stick with it you'll find that it will begin to flow very smoothly.
Burgess takes us into the mind of Marlowe; his images are vivid. There were many passages that I had to reread, not because they were difficult, but because they were so beautiful. Sir Walter Raleigh introducing Kit to tobacco is marvelous.
I have to agree with those who found that following the characters was a bit confusing. I had the good fortune to have read Charles Nichol's book 'The Reckoning" first, a true story about the death of Marlowe. That work is a great introduction to most of the players in Burgess's book.
Please, don't be intimidated by "Dead Man", it is a pleasing and enlightening work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Dead Man in Deptford
Comment: A novelization of the career and death of Elizabethan writer Kit Marlowe.
Wonderfully clever on a sentence level, and also a realistic evocation of period mentalities. I found nothing that seemed anachronistic here; the characters are steeped in the thought, literature, and problems of their times.
Sometimes the cleverness detracts from the story. The unusual dialogue punctuation in particular makes conversations hard to follow. At times the themes have great power, but too often they, as well as plot and characterization, sag under the weight of verbal expression. A framing device -- as well as a puzzling new voice coming in at the end -- doesn't add much and seems unnecessary.
Overall, I found this to be an ambitious and well-written book which will probably lose a number of readers who can't follow its verbal twists and turns, but which is well worth reading.
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Title: The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl ISBN: 0226580245 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.20 |
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Title: Entered From The Sun: The Murder Of Marlowe by George P. Garrett ISBN: 0156287951 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 039331507X Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0786709723 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems by Mark Thornton Burnett ISBN: 0460879952 Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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