The Song of Achilles: A Novel - Softcover

Miller, Madeline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062126121 ISBN 13: 9780062126122

Verlag: Harper Collins USA, 2012

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Book by Madeline Miller

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THE SONG OF ACHILLES is at once a scholar's homage to THE ILIAD and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her own fresh take on the Trojan war and its heroes. The result is a book I could not put down. (Ann Patchett, bestselling author of BEL CANTO and STATE OF WONDER)

A modern take on The Iliad, full of love and feats of glory and told in an open, lyric, loose-limbed fashion that should appeal to many readers.... Next up from Miller the story of Circe...historical fiction fans, get in on the ground floor. (Library Journal)

Mary Renault lives again! A ravishingly vivid and convincing version of one of the most legendary of love stories. (Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of ROOM)

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A thrilling, brilliant, wholly original retelling of the legend of Achilles, this tale of gods, kings, immortal fame and the human heart is a dazzling feat of the imagination and the most unusual debut of the season.

Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.

Achilles is everything Patroclus is not--strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess--and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and soon their tentative companionship gives way to a steadfast friendship. As they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something far deeper--despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel and deathly pale sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.

When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and Patroclus follows, little knowing that the years that the cruel Fates will test them as never before, and demand a terrible sacrifice.

Building on the groundwork of The Iliad, Miller's page-turning, profoundly moving and blisteringly paced retelling of the epic Trojan War marks the launch of a dazzling career.

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• Verlag: Harper Collins USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062126121
• ISBN 13: 9780062126122
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 378