Th. Michael Gruber is an author living in Seattle, Washington. He attended Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of Miami. He worked as a cook, a marine biologist, a speech writer, a policy advisor for the Jimmy Carter White House, and a bureaucrat for the EPA before becoming a novelist/5. If you are looking for a book that contains a number of boringly detailed sex scenes, if you want one with improbably gifted (but flawed, alas) heros, one that has secrets within secrets, whose revelation shocks the known world in other words, a complete escapist work, then The Book of Air and Shadows is Cited by: 1. The Book of Air and Shadows. by. Michael Gruber (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 12, ratings · 1, reviews. An intellectual property lawyer is at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer—or killers—unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic /5(K).
The Book of Air and Shadows Paperback - 1 Aug. by. Michael Gruber (Author) › Visit Amazon's Michael Gruber Page. See search results for this author. Michael Gruber (Author) out of 5 stars. 96 ratings. See all formats and editions. This book does not appear to be one of a series, (my preference) although the main protagonist is an intellectual properties lawyer, who could potentially ferret out more literary secrets. But I have not seen the last of Michael Gruber. The Washington Post called Michael Gruber's previous work "a miracle of intelligent fiction and among the essential novels of recent years." Now comes his most intellectually provocative and compulsively readable novel yet. The Book of Air and Shadows is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of.
THE BOOK OF AIR AND SHADOWS. by Michael Gruber ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, Encoded Jacobean documents suggest the existence of an un-produced Shakespeare play written in the bard’s own hand. There is, as one would expect, considerable interest in the location of that work. The plot summary of The Book of Air and Shadows-- ciphered seventeenth-century letters found in a rare book trigger a race to find an undiscovered Shakespeare play--might seem like yet another rubbing of the grail were it not for Gruber's intelligence and engaging style. Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, The Book of Air and shadow is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines an ingenious and intricately layered plot with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery or self-destruction.
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