Book Giveaway: My Name Is Will by Jess Winfield

Book Giveaway: My Name Is Will by Jess Winfield

This giveaway is going on at Alison's Book Marks. Click her blog link to see the full giveaway. This entire post is straight from her blog. Happy Birthday Alison!

From Alison's Book Marks

" My birthday is coming up in a few days, and I love, love, love getting presents!! So, this year, I'm passing on some love. Valerie, at Hachette Book Group, has hooked me up with 5 copies of My Name is Will by Jess Winfield. I will be posting a review of this amazing book soon, but before I do, I need to make sure that at least five of my friends are going to feel the love with me, and join me in chatting about this great book!

First, a little bit about the book:

My Name Is Will
A Novel of
Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
by Jess Winfield

A Tale of two Shakespeares....

Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student, Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about
the Bard. Kind of....

Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees to deliver a single giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs.

Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon. The future Bard's life is turned upside down when a stranger entrusts him with a sacred relic from Rome...This, at a time when adherents of the "Old Faith" are being hanged, drawn and quartered as traitors.

Seemingly separated in time and place, the lives of Willie and William begin to intersect in curious ways, from harrowing encounters with the law (and a few ex-girlfriends) to dubious experiments with mind-altering substances. Their misadventures could be dismissed as youthful folly. But wise or foolish, the bold choices they make will shape not only the 'Shakespeare' each is destined to come...but the very course of history itself."

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