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“The Which of Shakespeare’s Why is a captivating journey that challenges readers to reconsider their understanding of Shakespeare… This book is excellent not only for fans of Shakespeare but also for anyone interested in literary fiction or a different perspective on one of history’s most revered writers. I would definitely recommend this book.”
—Amazon Reader, 5-Star Verified Review
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Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy
This vivid story opens with every couple’s nightmare—the disappearance of their comfortable known world. Ruin’s adventure explores the unpredictable progression of character and chance for Francy and Frank Campbell, newly destitute in their early thirties, along with their lovers and foes. And a murder investigator . . . .
“Absorbing and astonishing. Leigh Seippel knows the dynamics of streams, sentences, and the human soul. Ruin is a novel to be savored.” —Author Noah Broyles, The House of Dust
The Which of Shakespeare’s Why
The controversy over who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been around almost since they were written. Was the genius behind the plays really that obscure glover’s son from Stratford? Or was it someone else entirely—a man whose class, background, education, and peculiarities make him a more than plausible candidate?
History, literature, and adventures in the natural world.
“Absorbing and astonishing. Leigh Seippel knows the dynamics of streams, sentences, and the human soul. RUIN is a novel to be savored.”
“RUIN is a dangerously psychological romantic nightmare about a young couple’s loss and redemption. When disgraced financier Frank Campbell and his also bankrupted wife Francy escape Manhattan, they bottom out at an abandoned farmhouse in the Hudson Valley. As their marriage teeters, Frank takes up fly fishing and through it and hard artisanal work begins life again—until things go deeply wrong again. Seippel unfurls this tragicomic tale in a haunting manner, deeply echoing the vulnerability of early Hemingway and the bitterness of T.S. Eliot. The journey is thrilling, its vividly evolving characters long memorable.”
“Leigh Seippel’s tale of wreckage, fishing, and renewal reads like a song, drawing us across the hazy Rubicon that divides every lost man’s heart.”
Meet Leigh
Ruin is a tale of the flow of character and chance for a suddenly penniless couple. It is told vividly through fishing experieces. The author Leigh Seippel has walked the arc of Ruin. Flyfishing has taken him across four continents and he has worked a hardscrabble Hudson Valley firm. He is a former president of the Anglers’ Club of New York.
Leigh Light is the pen name of a writer drawn by the Shakespeare author mystery into his own deep biographical research. The novel that resulted from his immersion into this fascinating history condenses research-based conclusions into a playful modern tale that, much like Shakespeare’s comedies, reflects serious dramatic ideas amidst a comedic farce on a public stage.