Shakespeare's Sonnets — Samuel Park

"Sam Park has written a tender and witty love story, and in so doing has rescued an important time in our collective history from oblivion. A touching and engaging novel which effortlessly captures the joy and pain of one's first love affair, and that moment in life when we all must decide whose life to live: ours or the one others have chosen for us." - Don Roos, writer-director, "The Opposite of Sex," "Happy Endings"

"An intense literary love story: elegant, urgent, and wonderfully romantic." --Sarah Waters, author "The Night Watch"

"A paean to youth, love, longing, and literature, Shakespeare's Sonnets is evocative and bittersweet."--Curtis Sittenfeld, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Prep"

"A poignant, provocative tale about the longings, conflicts and risks of first love in an era that condemns it... Park's writing exudes the authority of a scholar and the sensitivity of an artist, propelled by the searing force of truth, and signals the arrival of a bold new talent on the literary scene." - Barry Sandler, screenwriter, "Making Love"

"Are Adam and Jean in 1948 living out Shakespeare's story? Or Wilde's? Or ours? A masterful story-teller, Sam Park put history, as well as us, in a state of suspense."--Bruce R. Smith, author of "Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England"

First developed as a one-act play at Stanford University, this literate, intimate novel introduc