The Songs of the Kings - Hardcover

Unsworth, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385501145 ISBN 13: 9780385501149

Publisher: Nan a Talese, 2003

Synopsis

With the Greek fleet trapped in the straits of Aulis by storms, Iphigeneia, the innocent young daughter of Agamemnon, is brought to the coast under false pretenses in order to sacrifice her to appease the gods and allow the ships to continue their voyage to Troy, in a colorful historical novel about the Trojan War.

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Review:

"Elegant, profound, and wonder-provoking.... Unsworth's writing is unrivaled, he gets better and better, and his versatility is breathtaking. His novels are close to perfect in an imperfect literary world."

Unsworth's story never falters.

Intellectually agile, thrillingly stylish...The Songs of the Kings effortlessly proves that modern life is the stuff of ancient myth.

Incandescent....One of the three most important British novelists at work today....It is impossible to read [this novel] without feeling an immediacy both unbearable and profound, as if this week's headlines were being incised into the conscience and the heart....Unsworth has combined several versions of the Iphigenia myth to set up an entrancing, frightening mystery. --Richard Eder"

Elegant, profound, and wonder-provoking....Unsworth's writing is unrivaled, he gets better and better, and his versatility is breathtaking. His novels are close to perfect in an imperfect literary world. --Ruth Rendell"

Intellectually agile, thrillingly stylish..."The Songs of the Kings" effortlessly proves that modern life is the stuff of ancient myth. "

Unsworth's story never falters. "

Detail so precise you can almost smell the cook fires....Almost magical capacity for literary time travel.--Neil Gordon

A beautifully measured entertainment given gravity by how accurately it reflects the present political zeal to control the media.

Brilliantly told. This short, sharp tale deserves to be on the shelves of revisionists and purists alike.

About the Author:

BARRY UNSWORTH won the Booker Prize for his novel Sacred Hunger and is also the author of Losing Nelson, After Hannibal, and the international bestseller Morality Play. He lives in Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nan a Talese
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385501145
• ISBN 13: 9780385501149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 338