The Tragedy of Arthur

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The main character of The Tragedy of Arthur is a young man struggling with the legacy of a larger-than-life father, a con artist capable of working wonders of deception, but essentially unreliable. When Arthur's father, imprisoned for decades and nearing the end of his life informs Arthur of a secret family legacy awaiting them in a bank vault, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare, titled The Tragedy of Arthur. He wants Arthur to bring it to Random House to be published. It is either a great gift to literature and the world or their father's last great con.
A virtuosic work, The Tragedy of Arthur movingly captures romantic and familial love and betrayal, while simultaneously jousting with the tension between storytelling and truthtelling, the anxiety of influence in both personal and artistic lives, and the act of literary mythmaking. The novel both stands on its own and deepens in resonance with the play as the two Arthurs Arthur the novelist and Arthur the king play out their individual but intertwined fates.