My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
by:
Jess Winfield (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446508834 (0446508837)
Publish date: July 3rd 2009
Publisher: Twelve
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Humor,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Plays,
Theatre,
Contemporary,
Modern
I loved every word of this book. Every irreverent parallel, every time-bending coincidence, each bawdy witticism. And it is definitely a book I would LOVE to see onscreen.
This was seriously a fun fun read! I am a sucker for anything Shakespeare, so I knew before I even read it that I would most likely enjoy it. It flips back and forth between present day and when Shakespeare was a young man, sometimes in a novel this can be distracting, but it worked very well here. ...
I was leaning toward 3 stars but the last half of this quirky novel pushed it into the 3.6-3.8 range.My Name Is Will recounts the parallel stories of a critical-year-in-the-life of William Shakespeare and his modern-day namesake William Shakespeare Greenberg (Willie), a prodigal son cruising on auto...
Meet Willie Shakespeare Greenberg – a struggling thesis-writer, small scale drug-user and future scholar. Meet also William Shakespeare – a womanising youth, closeted Catholic and future bard. Two men, 300 years apart in time, but joined by name and history. My Name Is Will is the story of two Wills...
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