9780312866471: The Feast

Synopsis

This is a modern telling of one of "Fled Bricriu". Three men, each striving to be named Champion of Conchobor's realm enter into a battle of wits and swords. As the competition unfolds, visits to the otherworld threaten to unmask the true nature of the gathering. And at the centre remains Bricriu.

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About the Author

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on translations in several languages, poetry, plays, and novels of which two have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ireland's national epic is now a text in not only schools in the United States, but countries overseas as well. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest History Award. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

Synopsis

This is a modern telling of one of "Fled Bricriu". Three men, each striving to be named Champion of Conchobor's realm enter into a battle of wits and swords. As the competition unfolds, visits to the otherworld threaten to unmask the true nature of the gathering. And at the centre remains Bricriu.

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ISBN 10:  0312872992 ISBN 13:  9780312872991
Publisher: Forge, 2001
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