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Playhouse: A novel

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From the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (“A master of the novel as well as the story . . . Effortlessly engaging” —Sven Birkerts, The New York Times), a sharp, affecting, masterly new novel about a close-knit theater community in Memphis and one turbulent, transformative production of King Lear. As renovations begin at the Shakespeare Theater of Memphis, life for the core members of the company seems to be falling into disarray. Their trusted director has just retired, and theater manager Thaddeus Deerforth—staring down forty and sensing a rift growing slowly between himself and his wife, Gina—dreads the arrival of an imperious, inscrutable visiting director. Claudette, struggling to make ends meet as an actor and destabilized by family troubles, is getting frequent calls from her ex-boyfriend—and also the narcissistic, lecherous television actor who has been recruited to play King Lear in their fall production. Also invited to the cast is Malcolm Ruark, a disgraced TV anchor muddling through the fallout of a scandal involving his underaged niece—and suddenly in an even more precarious situation when the same niece, now eighteen, is cast to play Cordelia. As tensions onstage and off build toward a breaking point, the bonds among the intimately drawn characters are put to extraordinary tests—and the fate of the theater itself may even be on the line. Deftly weaving together the points of view of Thaddeus, Claudette, and Malcolm, and utterly original in its incorporation of Shakespeare’s timeless drama, Playhouse is an unforgettable story of men and women, human frailty, art, and redemption—a work of inimitable imaginative prowess by one of our most renowned storytellers. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf (February 14, 2023)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451494849


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 49


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.44 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.68 x 1.26 x 9.66 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #642,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5,077 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #15,090 in Classic Literature & Fiction #30,947 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • An engrossing character-driven novel set in the world of community theater
I loved this book, and I found myself identifying with the struggles of the characters. The story has a wide-ranging cast of characters, who face a lot of modern-day problems---aging parents, MeToo-type scandals, encroaching irrelevance, struggles with creativity, star-crossed love affairs. But there's a great sense of humor at play as well. I've always thought the theater world would be a great setting for a novel, and the novel really delivers on this front. I also liked the Memphis setting, and now I want to go there. I took my time reading it, and I looked forward to re-entering the world of these characters every night when I picked up my Kindle. I was sad when it was over. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2023 by Amy Fries
    • Rich overlapping stories of love and loss brought together around a production of King Lear
I highly recommend this book. I read Playhouse cover-to-cover on flights between Southern California and Boston, and I was both fully immersed in the story and in awe of the author’s exquisite writing. There’s a lot to unpack with this novel. It’s actually multiple stories about multiple overlapping relationships, each character in some way connected to a new theater production of King Lear. The front of the book lists a “Cast of Characters,” and it comes in handy because, with quite a few characters and overlapping plotlines, it helps you keep track of who’s who and how everyone is connected in this fascinating glimpse into the complex world of the theater. Most of the individual stories revolve around love and loss in some way, but they manage to highlight a vast range of human experience, including marital disintegration, mental disintegration, alcohol and drug abuse, family conflict, sexual misconduct, crushed dreams, new beginnings... All the sub-plots come together beautifully in the end around an event that both makes the story whole and is the perfect hopeful conclusion to a book that is mostly dark until right before the curtain rises. Bravo, Richard Bausch. Playhouse is brilliant. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023 by Anne Moose
    • An intimate backstage view of a production of King Lear
An intimate backstage view of a production of King Lear in the steam of a Memphis Tennessee summer. Marriages unravel, families fall apart, but the show goes on—“a dream of violent passions and immense failures in a world bereft of clemency” mirroring the real world and still finding hope and connection. Bravo! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023 by Mary P. Camarillo
    • Wonderful, delightful novel
Richard Bausch is now on my must read list. He tells a story of a community, warts and all, yet still leaves this reader with a lovely glow of wonder.
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2023 by wdc

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