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Paperback: 342 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (April 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393322831
ISBN-13: 978-0393322835
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8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
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Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly provocative and subversive, Unsworth writes new novel of ancient history to show how one can be clever, ambitious and hungry for power to distort the truth, to convince the masses to support and encourage the country to war interest rate books free. It is a daring blend of myth with a strong contemporary resonance interest rate books free. The setting is Aulis (combined actually a patchwork of predators and hostile tribes loosely under Agamemnon) in 1260 BC, when unfavorable winds, the fleet of the Greek expeditionary force of the capture of Troy to keep. The reason for this is the revenge for the "rape" of Helen by Paris, but Agamemnon and the tribal leaders, such as Achilles and Odysseus are, in fact, desirable to the legendary treasure of Troy, the spoils of war that every human being to the soldier most common, strive to possess. Unsworth (Sacred Hunger) shows the complex plot slowly, as though the misery in which explores the story hinges: the signs that explain the anger of Zeus and the prophecy that only the sacrifice of the daughter of Agamemnon, Iphigenia, the back is a headwind. We know this event from Homer, of course, and it appears as a singer, a far cry from a noble figure who was influenced by the conspirators to the version that he form of Odysseus. He is the hero of the Odyssey, which gradually as the evil leader who cynically manipulated his cohorts operates as the prophecy serve his own purposes. And that Iphigenia, lured by false promises of Aulis, which shows more courage than the king, his enemies, or a court of sycophants who seek only their own advantage. Unsworth narrative style is as bold as his message, his prose is a mixture of classical and contemporary vernacular cadences of vignettes performed beautifully descriptive and bawdy humor. It uses a minor character, the soothsayer Calchas as a means by which the reader understands the political machinations that the illusion of a just war. "People committed to the war is still a story, and the singer is always .... The [This] really is gold and copper and cinnamon, and jade and slaves and timber," says Calchas. "These are the stories of the strong, the songs of the kings until the end ..-- really believed in gold and copper and cinnamon, and jade and slaves and timber," says Calchas. "These are the stories of the strong, the songs of the kings, it is assumed that the end of "Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. -. This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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