Electra: A Delphic Woman Novel: Electra, cartea 3
Autor Kerry Greenwooden Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 dec 2013
In the third and final volume of the Delphic Women series, Hector is dead, Troy has fallen in ruins; and unknown to the Argives, refugees from the sack are rebuilding their civilization in New Troy. Agamemnon King of Men returns in triumph to Mycenae, bringing Princess Cassandra among his captives. Diomenes called Chryse and a Trojan sailor pursue her by sea, hoping against hope to rescue her. Their resourcefulness will be strained to its limits by war, pillage and social breakdown. For all is not well in the House of the Axe. In the king’s absence, Clytemnestra the Queen has taken a lover Aegisthus and has mixed feelings about her husband’s return. And the King’s golden-eyed daughter Electra hides a secret of her own which will bring a terrible vengeance. Meanwhile Odysseus, Sacker of Cities, has troubles of his own. He wishes only to return home to Ithaca, but the gods have other ideas.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781464202131
ISBN-10: 1464202133
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 143 x 214 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Poisoned Pen Press
Seria Electra
ISBN-10: 1464202133
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 143 x 214 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Poisoned Pen Press
Seria Electra
Recenzii
"The first of her three Delphic Women series to be available in the United States is an enthralling, sensual, tragic tale packed with historical detail."—Kirkus Review of Medea
"Greenwood offers interesting riffs on familiar figures of myth, and impressively buttresses her biggest departure from the usual story in a scholarly afterword. She also makes the most of the dramatic potential in the journey of the Argo through dangers that anticipate Odysseus’s perilous return home after the Trojan War. The Medea-centric sections serve as a welcome counterpoint to Robert Graves’s Hercules, My Shipmate."—Publishers Weekly starred review of Medea
"In the first volume of her “Delphic Women” historical series set in ancient Greece, Greenwood has taken the ultimate dysfunctional mother and created a character of depth and complexity who betrayed and was betrayed, was lost and, ultimately, redeemed. Greenwood, a prolific and popular writer in her native Australia, is best known here for her humorous Phryne Fisher and Corrina Chapman mysteries. Readers who enjoy such literary reinterpretations of classical myths as Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia or Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad will snap up Greenwood’s fresh take."—Library Journal starred review of Medea
"Compared to Greenwood’s more well-known fiction, this book is a bit of a curiosity, but it’s definitely worth checking out."—Booklist of Medea
Notă biografică
Kerry Greenwood is the author of the Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman detective stories, as well as the Delphic Women series and many other books both ancient and modern. She is a qualified lawyer who has practised for many years in the law courts as a defence counsel. She lives with an accredited wizard and several cats in Melbourne, Australia. In her spare time, she stares blankly out the window.