Ophelia Rising: 'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.' - Softcover

Tosi, Umberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069234618X ISBN 13: 9780692346181

Publisher: Light Fantastic Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Ophelia gets a life - and what a life! Half drowned, she escapes Elsinore with help from a merry troupe of players. Thus begins her fantastic and harrowing journey though Renaissance Europe, richly told in this prodigiously researched, historical and romantic literary novel. It's pages are filled with fascinating characters from history and the imagination, and vividly illustrated with thirty three authentic images from the period. The new Ophelia learns to play many roles - female and male, on stage and off. She must keep her wits about her and find allies to survive religious strife, persecutions, intrigues, hardships, while eluding scheming pursuers. As she seeks what remains of her family, Ophelia finds unlikely friends, lovers, angels and mentors to guide her through uncertainties and dangers. She crosses paths with kings, queens, princes and pretenders, ambitious prelates, soldiers, rebels, merchants, artisans, astronomers, alchemists, philosophers, schemers and creative geniuses - the best and worst of an era in tumultuous change. No more the fair maiden, she must survive and find what dreams may come.

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About the Author

Umberto Tosi – author of Ophelia Rising – is contributing editor of Chicago Quarterly Review. His published fiction includes: Gunning for the Holy Ghost, Our Own Kind, Satan the Movie and My Dog's Name – a novella quartet set in Los Angeles, where he was a writer and editor with the Los Angeles Times for a dozen years. He was also editor of San Francisco Magazine, managing editor of Francis Ford Coppola's City Magazine, editor-in-chief of the Diablo Magazine Group, as well editor at digital publisher MightyWords.com. He has published hundreds of articles and stories in regional and national magazines and reviews. His other published books include the cold war spy biography, High Treason (GP Putnam & Sons), Sports Psyching (J.P. Tarcher), and the Christmas novella, Milagro on 34th Street, Umberto Tosi was born in Boston. He resides in Chicago, and has four grown children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Light Fantastic Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 069234618X
• ISBN 13: 9780692346181
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 508