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'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. The man was famous, the fate obscure; not a bad balance.'
Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father's closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia's mother favours her own kinsman, King Turnus of Rutulia, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods' holy place and tells her of her future, and Aeneas' past . . . If she refuses to wed Turnus, Lavinia knows she will start a war - but her fate was set the moment the poet appeared to her in a dream and told her of the adventurer who fled fallen Troy, holding his son's hand and carrying his father on his back.
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Praise for LAVINIA"[A] work of immeasurable merit, LAVINIA ranks with Robert Graves' inestimable"I, Claudius"as a perfect tale of a vastly imperfect time. Brilliant."--Baltimore Sun"The inspired novelist has turned back toward the past...and written one of the finest novels she has ever made."--Chicago Tribune"[LAVINIA] is a poem in the form of a novel, an elegant echo chamber for a canonical work, a reading of an epic poem, and a rewriting of that poem..."--Los Angeles Times""
PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is."--Margaret Atwood
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."--"Boston Globe
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'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's."--Grace Paley
PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." Margaret Atwood
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own." "Boston Globe
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'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's." Grace Paley
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PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." Margaret Atwood
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own." "Boston Globe
"
'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's." Grace Paley
"
PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is."--Margaret Atwood "Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."--Boston Globe
'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's."--Grace Paley
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PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is."--Margaret Atwood
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."--"Boston Globe
"
'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's."--Grace Paley
PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." Margaret Atwood
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own." "Boston Globe
"
'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's." Grace Paley
"
PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." Margaret Atwood
"Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own." "Boston Globe
"
'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's." Grace Paley
"
PRAISE FOR URSULA K. LE GUIN
"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is."--Margaret Atwood "Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."--Boston Globe
'There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin's."--Grace Paley
An exceptional combination of history and mythology from the author of A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA: `A novel that deserves to be ranked with Robert Graves¿s I, CLAUDIAS¿ Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0575084596
- ISBN 13 9780575084599
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade Paperback. 295 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Victor Gollancz, UK, 2009. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near the seven hills. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner that she will be the cause of a bitter war and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to make her own destiny, and to tell us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and the love of her life. A book of family, love, and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN/EAN: 9780575084599. Inventory No: 23071033. Seller Inventory # 23071033
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