The Book of Air and Shadows
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The Book of Air and Shadows is a thriller novel
by Michael Gruber
published in 2007.
is an intriguing and complex thriller based around the mystery of William Shakespeare
. Jake Mishkin, a lonely and troubled lapsed Catholic intellectual property lawyer
(who is generally assumed to be Jewish-American despite his Waffen SS Officer grandfather) teams up with a young and hopeful young man, Albert Crosetti, who has taken a job at an antiquarian bookstore in the hope of saving enough to fund his studies at NYU film school. Together they hunt for Shakespeare's elusive lost manuscript.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Michael Gruber
Michael Gruber (author)
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...
published in 2007.
Plot summary
Set concurrently in the 17th century and the 21st century, the novelNovel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
is an intriguing and complex thriller based around the mystery of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
. Jake Mishkin, a lonely and troubled lapsed Catholic intellectual property lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
(who is generally assumed to be Jewish-American despite his Waffen SS Officer grandfather) teams up with a young and hopeful young man, Albert Crosetti, who has taken a job at an antiquarian bookstore in the hope of saving enough to fund his studies at NYU film school. Together they hunt for Shakespeare's elusive lost manuscript.