Archive for June 24, 2011
THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR by Arthur Phillips
The very first thing I did after finishing The Tragedy of Author – Arthur Phillips’s ingenious faux-memoir – was to Google to see what was true and what wasn’t…only to find that much of Phillips’s traceable past has been erased.
Did he really have a gay twin sister named Dana, a scam artist father who spent his adult life in prison, a Czech wife and twin sons of his own? Methinks not. What I do know is that Arthur Phillips shares his birthday with the Bard himself, that he was born in Minnesota, and that he is indeed a writer to be watched very carefully. Because what he’s accomplished in this novel – er, memoir – is sheer genius.
June 24, 2011
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Judi Clark В· 
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Tags: 2011 Favorites, Contemporary, Fictional Autobiography, Shakespeare, Unreliable Narrator В· Posted in: 2011 Favorites, Alternate History, Contemporary, Identity
