{"product_id":"stalking-shakespeare-a-memoir-of-madness-murder-and-my-search-for-the-poet-beneath-the-paint-hardcover","title":"Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLee Durkee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A wickedly entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man's relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like. That the Bard of Avon has gotten progressively handsomer in modern depictions seems only to reinforce this point. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Intensely readable...with bust-out laughing moments\" (\u003ci\u003eGarden \u0026amp; Gun\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003e Stalking Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e is Durkee's fascinating memoir about a hobby gone awry, the 400-year-old myriad portraits attached to the famous playwright, and Durkee's own unrelenting search for a lost picture of the Bard painted from real life. As Durkee becomes better at beguiling curators into testing their paintings with X-ray and infrared technologies, we get a front-row seat to the captivating mysteries--and unsolved murders--surrounding the various portraits rumored to depict Shakespeare. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhisking us backward in time through layers of paint and into the pages of obscure books on the Elizabethans, Durkee travels from Vermont to Tokyo to Mississippi to DC and ultimately to London to confront the stuffy curators forever protecting the Bard's image. For his part, Durkee is the adversary they didn't know they had--a self-described dilettante with nothing to lose, the \"Dan Brown of Elizabethan portraiture.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bizarre and surprisingly moving blend of biography, art history, and madness, \u003ci\u003eStalking Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"gripping, poignant, and enjoyable\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) journey that will forever change the way you look at one of history's greatest cultural and literary icons.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee Durkee is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Taxi Driver\u003c\/i\u003e, named a \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Novel of 2021, \u003ci\u003eRides of the Midway\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStalking Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e. His stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoetrope: All Story\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMississippi Noir\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9.06 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767228465440,"sku":"9781982127145","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cd1a39ed2b58fb8f3a3ff33d9f9e7f8f.webp?v=1780307036","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/stalking-shakespeare-a-memoir-of-madness-murder-and-my-search-for-the-poet-beneath-the-paint-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}