THE BOOK OF AIR AND SHADOWS
by Gruber, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Gruber's fifth book is a bibliomystery set in New York, England and Switzerland as a fire in an antiquarian bookstore reveals a 400-year-old cache of letters that thrusts Jake Mishkin, an intellectual property lawyer, into a frantic and deadly chase after a lost Shakespearean manuscript and an encrypted map leading to almost unimaginable wealth. Inside front cover shows three small and faint pen marks, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket has a small area in upper right corner of the front panel where clear coating was damaged with removal of a price sticker and a three-inch tear starting at the top edge of the back panel and running along the fold between the back panel and flap (the tear has been carefully repaired from the inside with archival-quality tape), o/w only minor surface and edgewear.
Synopsis
A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death . . .A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries . . .An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth... 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.Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose seemingly innocent job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him 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 chase that began when a fire in an antiquarian bookstore revealed the hiding place of letters containing a shocking secret, concealed for four hundred years. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shadowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move. What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, where no one—not family, not friends, not lovers—is to be trusted.Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, The Book of Air and Shadows 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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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003915
- Title
- THE BOOK OF AIR AND SHADOWS
- Author
- Gruber, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, BIBLIOMYSTERY, FIRST EDITION, NEW YORK, SHAKESPEARE, THRILLER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Thriller; Bibliomystery;
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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