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ASSASSINATING SHAKESPEARE :
Confessions of a Bard in the Bush
(Saqi Books/London, 2006)
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PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION:
In 1976, Thomas Goltz, then a naive twenty-two-year-old on the trail of his errant brother, worked his way around Africa putting on one-man Shakespeare performances. This impulsive trip saw him wandering through the cities and villages of East, Central and Southern Africa. His first port of call, after hitchhiking through Eastern Europe and the Middle East, was war-torn Ethiopia. Close encounters followed, with bandits, missionaries, guerrillas, prostitutes, savvy street kids, unrequited loves and, of course, ordinary, Shakespeare-loving Africans...
BLURBS AND PRAISE:
“I was thrilled, entertained, amused and yes, occasionally shocked by Goltz’s youthful adventures and indiscretions in post-colonial Africa…a true delight. Not to be missed.”
–Valerie Hemingway, author of ‘Running With The Bulls--My Years with the Hemingways--
“The very definition of literary adventure. I laughed at length.”
–Tim Cahill, author of Lost in My Own Backyard, etc.--
“A rollicking, on-the-road adventure story that is by turns all-out-loud hilarious and deeply affecting.”
–Scott Anderson, author of Triage, etc.
“Goltz’s adventures have a surreal absurdity to them that will leave you gasping for breath…this is a must read.”
– Margot Kidder --
REVIEWS:
“…insanely entertaining…a droll little book!”
–Alan Riding, ‘All Africa is a Stage,’ in December 3, 2006 New York Review of Books. For full review, click this hot-link
“Endearing Lunacy….If ever there was proof that Shakespeares plays reinvent themselves for successive generations and cultural contexts, then this is it. Beyond the perilous and the funny, Goltz taps into every emotion at just the right pitch. His understanding of love, lust, the beauty of the African landscape, and his own wild, motiveless instincts, show a man well attuned to his experiences…” --LitCrit.com.
For full review, click this hot-link
"Many hippies who traveled the world smoking dope and hanging out in Third World countries in the 1970s could barely remember their names by the time they returned home. Not so Thomas Goltz, who was hardly the average backpacker..."
--Tom Chesshyre, the (London) Times Literary Supplement, July 14, 2006. --
Daily Missoulian article of December 11, 2006, on World Premier Reading of Assassinating Shakespeare:
“When Thomas Goltz reads from his recently published memoir 'Assassinating Shakespeare' Tuesday in Missoula, he'll be coming off a 36-hour stint in Washington, D.C., where the first lady of Azerbaijan demanded his presence at a dinner party…”
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