The Song of Achilles by Miller, Madeline

The Song of Achilles by Miller, Madeline

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E-newsletter Year: 2012
Layout: Hardcover Language: English
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“Without lengthen a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly authorized work of work by an incredibly proficient novel novelist….A book I would perchance well perhaps additionally no longer put down.” –Ann Patchett “Mary Renault lives every other time!” publicizes Emma Donoghue, author of Room, relating to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly transferring, and fully strange retelling of the story of Achilles and the Trojan Battle. A memoir of gods, kings, immortal reputation, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a elegant literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad. An action-packed adventure, an account love memoir, a marvelously conceived and carried out page-turner, Miller’s enormous debut contemporary has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction’s brightest lights–and followers of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series will enjoyment of this unforgettable breeze reduction to oldschool Greece in the Age of Heroes. A thrilling and uncommon retelling of the story of Achilles: a memoir of gods, kings, immortal reputation, and the human heart–a elegant feat of the imagination that is certain to be belief to be one of many most uncommon debuts of the season. The story begins… Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an ungainly younger prince, has been exiled to the dominion of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. ‘eoeThe most appealing of the overall Greeks’e�’e”solid, elegant, and the newborn of a goddess’e”Achilles is the entirety the shamed Patroclus is no longer. But despite their differences, the boys change into steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they develop into younger men and change into skilled in the arts of battle and medicine’e”noteworthy to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’e(tm) mother, Thetis, a merciless sea goddess with a hatred of mortals. When observe comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the boys of Greece, certain by blood and oath, must lay siege to Troy in her title. Seduced by the promise of a excellent future, Achilles joins their region off, and torn between love and alarm for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little develop they know that the Fates will take a look at them both as by no methodology before and put a query to a unpleasant sacrifice. Built on the groundwork of the Iliad, Madeline Miller’e(tm)s page-turning, profoundly transferring, and blisteringly paced retelling of the account Trojan Battle marks the open of a elegant occupation.

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ISBN-10 0062060619
ISBN-13 9780062060617
eBay Product ID (ePID) 109281988

Key Particulars
Creator Madeline Miller
Number Of Pages 384 pages
Layout Hardcover
E-newsletter Date 2012-03-06
Language English
Creator HarperCollins Publishers
E-newsletter Year 2012

Dimensions
Weight 20.5 Oz.19459027]
High 1.2 In.
Width 6 In.
Length 9 In.

Aim Target audience
Group Alternate

Classification System
LC Classification Number PS3613.I5445S65 2012
Dewey Decimal 813.6
Dewey Version 23

Experiences
“A masterly imaginative and prescient of the drama, valor, and tragedy of the Trojan Battle. Readers who cherished Mary Renault’s account novels will seemingly be thrilled with Miller’s portrayal of oldschool Greece. This reviewer can not wait to ogle what she writes next.” “A latest exercise on The Iliad, plump of affection and feats of glory and told in an open, lyric, loose-limbed vogue that ought to allure to many readers…. Subsequent up from Miller–the memoir of Circe…historical fiction followers, salvage in on the ground ground.” “A psychologically astute Iliad prelude featuring the heady, enormous title-crossed youth of future heroes Patroclus and Achilles.” “Though the principle points of the memoir are Miller’s dangle, the field is one who all who love the Iliad and its epigones will acknowledge. Finding out this book recalled me to the breathless sense of the oldschool-but-mask that I felt after I first tumble in love with the classics.” “Without lengthen a scholar’s homage to THE ILIAD and a startlingly authorized work of work by an incredibly proficient novel novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her dangle contemporary exercise on the Trojan battle and its heroes. The cessation consequence’s a book I would perchance well perhaps additionally no longer put down.” “Without lengthen a scholar’s homage to THE ILLIAD and a startlingly authorized work of work by an incredibly proficient novel novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her dangle contemporary exercise on the Trojan battle and its heroes. The cessation consequence’s a book I would perchance well perhaps additionally no longer put down.” “Beautifully carried out. . ..In prose as neat and spare because the riding poetry of Homer, Miller captures the depth and devotion of adolescent friendship and lets us judge in these lengthy-unimaginative boys…deepening and enriching a memoir that has been told for 3,000 years.” “Unparalleled… Beautifully descriptive and heartachingly lyrical, right here is a love memoir as gentle and intuitive as any you will gather.” “Extraordinary
 Beautifully descriptive and heartachingly lyrical, right here is a love memoir as gentle and intuitive as any you will gather.” “Hasty, staunch and incredibly rewarding…A outstanding fulfillment.” “I cherished it.” “I cherished this book. The language turned into timeless, the historical info were slipped in completely. I’m hoping SONG OF ACHILLES turns into piece of the high college summer season reading lists alongside PENELOPIAD.” “In the custom of Mary Renault… Miller draws on her knowledge of classical sources wisely… Neatly-paced, collaborating and tasteful.” “Madeline Miller’s vivid first contemporary…is a legend of enormous, passionate love between Achilles and Patroclus….[R]ewriting the Western world’s first and most appealing battle contemporary is activity to undertake. That she did it with such grace, vogue and suspense is unbelievable.” “Masterfully brings to existence an imaginative but advised imaginative and prescient of oldschool Greece featuring divinely human gods and elevated-than-existence mortals. She breaks novel ground retelling belief to be one of many field’s oldest tales about men in love and battle [and] unparalleled girls.” “Miller someway (and breathtakingly so) mixes high-action commercial plotting with writing of such elegant delicacy you most continuously want to smash and glance.” “Miller’s prose is extra poetic than nearly any translation of Homer… Right here’s a deeply affecting version of the Achilles memoir: a fully three-dimension man – a son, a father, husband and lover – now exists where a superhero beforehand stood and fought.” “Miller’s prose is extra poetic than nearly any translation of Homer
 Right here’s a deeply affecting version of the Achilles memoir: a fully three-dimension man – a son, a father, husband and lover – now exists where a superhero beforehand stood and fought.” “One of 2012’s most thrilling debuts…seductive, vastly intriguing….[I]magining the intimate friendship between Achilles and the devoted Patroclus…Miller conjures…soulmates. The resulting contemporary is cinematic-one would perchance well perhaps boom account-in scope, but refreshingly, compellingly human intimately.” “Among the appealing novelistic adaptations of Homer in contemporary reminiscence, and it provides strikingly smartly-rounded and compassionate portrait of Achilles….[Miller] injects a newfound sense of suspense proper into a legend with an ending that has already been obvious.” “Highly efficient, ingenious, passionate, and beautifully written. “ “THE ILIAD activates Achilles’ satisfaction and his relationship with Patroclus, but Homer is sparing with the non-public—so noteworthy so as that, despite the proven fact that we judge of their friendship, we develop no longer observe it. THE SONG OF ACHILLES brings light to their love. Right here’s a ideal trying book.” “THE ILLIAD activates Achilles’ satisfaction and his relationship with Patroclus, but Homer is sparing with the non-public-so noteworthy so as that, despite the proven fact that we judge of their friendship, we develop no longer observe it. THE SONG OF ACHILLES brings light to their love. Right here’s a ideal trying book.” “The Song of Achilles…wishes to be read and enjoyed for itself, but if Madeline Miller’s contemporary sends the reader reduction to Homer and his successors, she is to be thanked for that as smartly.” “Wildly romantic [and] surprisingly suspenseful….[B]ringing these sad figures reduction to existence, making them men every other time, and whereas she’s at it, us[ing] her passionate companion piece to The Iliad as a delicate swipe at at the moment’s ongoing debate over homosexual marriage. Discuss updating the classics.” “You originate no longer must be aware of Homer’s The Iliad (or Brad Pitt’s Troy, for that matter) to gather Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles appealing….her explorations of ego, peril, and love’s many diversifications are both acquainted and novel….[A] timeless love memoir.” ‘Mary Renault lives every other time! A ravishingly shining and convincing version of belief to be one of many most legendary of affection tales’ ‘Miller’s prose is extra poetic than nearly any translation of Homer? Right here’s a deeply affecting version of the Achilles memoir: a fully three-dimension man – a son, a father, husband and lover – now exists where a superhero beforehand stood and fought.'(The Guardian) ‘[Miller] makes a persuasive argument for the timeliness of her field. ?Miller’s a success debut specializes in Patroclus, a younger prince living in Achilles? golden shadow. Miller also offers enlighten to heaps of the girls who were also consigned to the shadows.’ (Publishers Weekly, Spring 2012 Preview, High 10 Literary Fiction) A appealing retelling of the Iliad and events leading as much because it via the level of ogle of Patroclus: it be a laborious book to position down, and any classicist will seemingly be enthralled by her characterisation of the goddess Thetis, which carries the staunch savagery and sit down again of antiquity “A masterly imaginative and prescient of the drama, valor, and tragedy of the Trojan Battle. Readers who cherished Mary Renault’s account novels will seemingly be thrilled with Miller’s portrayal of oldschool Greece. This reviewer can’t wait to ogle what she writes next.” “A latest exercise on The Iliad, plump of affection and feats of glory and told in an open, lyric, loose-limbed vogue that ought to allure to many readers…. Subsequent up from Miller—the memoir of Circe…historical fiction followers, salvage in on the ground ground.” “A psychologically astute Iliad prelude featuring the heady, enormous title-crossed youth of future heroes Patroclus and Achilles.” “Though the principle points of the memoir are Miller’s dangle, the field is one who all who love the Iliad and its epigones will acknowledge. Finding out this book recalled me to the breathless sense of the oldschool-but-mask that I felt after I first tumble in love with the classics.” “Without lengthen a scholar’s homage to THE ILIAD and a startlingly authorized work of work by an incredibly proficient novel novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her dangle contemporary exercise on the Trojan battle and its heroes. The cessation consequence’s a book I would perchance well perhaps additionally no longer put down.” “Without lengthen a scholar’s homage to THE ILLIAD and a startlingly authorized work of work by an incredibly proficient novel novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her dangle contemporary exercise on the Trojan battle and its heroes. The cessation consequence’s a book I would perchance well perhaps additionally no longer put down.” “Beautifully carried out. . ..In prose as neat and spare because the riding poetry of Homer, Miller captures the depth and devotion of adolescent friendship and lets us judge in these lengthy-unimaginative boys…deepening and enriching a memoir that has been told for 3,000 years.” “Extraordinary
 Beautifully descriptive and heartachingly lyrical, right here is a love memoir as gentle and intuitive as any you will gather.” “Hasty, staunch and incredibly rewarding
A outstanding fulfillment.” “I cherished it.” “I cherished this book. The language turned into timeless, the historical info were slipped in completely. I’m hoping SONG OF ACHILLES turns into piece of the high college summer season reading lists alongside PENELOPIAD.” “In the custom of Mary Renault… Miller draws on her knowledge of classical sources wisely
 Neatly-paced, collaborating and tasteful.” “Madeline Miller’s vivid first contemporary…is a legend of enormous, passionate love between Achilles and Patroclus….[R]ewriting the Western world’s first and most appealing battle contemporary is activity to undertake. That she did it with such grace, vogue and suspense is unbelievable.” “Masterfully brings to existence an imaginative but advised imaginative and prescient of oldschool Greece featuring divinely human gods and elevated-than-existence mortals. She breaks novel ground retelling belief to be one of many world’s oldest tales about men in love and battle [and] unparalleled girls.” “Miller someway (and breathtakingly so) mixes high-action commercial plotting with writing of such elegant delicacy you most continuously want to smash and glance.” “Miller’s prose is extra poetic than nearly any translation of Homer
 Right here’s a deeply affecting version of the Achilles memoir: a fully three-dimension man – a son, a father, husband and lover – now exists where a superhero beforehand stood and fought.” “One of 2012’s most thrilling debuts…seductive, vastly intriguing….[I]magining the intimate friendship between Achilles and the devoted Patroclus…Miller conjures…soulmates. The resulting contemporary is cinematic—one would perchance well perhaps boom epic—in scope, but refreshingly, compellingly human intimately.” “Among the appealing novelistic adaptations of Homer in contemporary reminiscence, and it provides strikingly smartly-rounded and compassionate portrait of Achilles….[Miller] injects a newfound sense of suspense proper into a legend with an ending that has already been obvious.” “Highly efficient, ingenious, passionate, and beautifully written. ” “THE ILIAD activates Achilles’ satisfaction and his relationship with Patroclus, but Homer is sparing with the personal—so noteworthy so as that, despite the proven fact that we judge of their friendship, we develop no longer observe it. THE SONG OF ACHILLES brings light to their love. Right here’s a ideal trying book.” “THE ILLIAD activates Achilles’ satisfaction and his relationship with Patroclus, but Homer is sparing with the personal—so noteworthy so as that, despite the proven fact that we judge of their friendship, we develop no longer observe it. THE SONG OF ACHILLES brings light to their love. Right here’s a ideal trying book.” “The Song of Achilles…wishes to be read and enjoyed for itself, but if Madeline Miller’s contemporary sends the reader reduction to Homer and his successors, she is to be thanked for that as smartly.” “Wildly romantic [and] surprisingly suspenseful….[B]ringing these sad figures reduction to existence, making them men every other time, and whereas she’s at it, us[ing] her passionate companion piece to The Iliad as a delicate swipe at today’s ongoing debate over homosexual marriage. Discuss updating the classics.” “You don’t must be aware of Homer’s The Iliad (or Brad Pitt’s Troy, for that matter) to gather Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles appealing….her explorations of ego, peril, and love’s many diversifications are both acquainted and novel….[A] timeless love memoir.” “[Miller] makes a persuasive argument for the timeliness of her field. 
Miller’s a success debut specializes in Patroclus, a younger prince living in Achilles’ golden shadow. Miller also offers enlighten to heaps of the girls who were also consigned to the shadows.” “A masterly imaginative and prescient of the drama, valor, and tragedy of the Trojan Battle. Readers who cherished Mary Renault’s account novels will seemingly be thrilled with Miller’s portrayal of oldschool Greece. This reviewer can’t wait to ogle what she writes next.” “A latest exercise on The Iliad, plump of affection and feats of glory and told in an open, lyric, loose-limbed vogue that ought to allure to many readers…. Subsequent up from Miller—the memoir of Circe…historical fiction followers, salvage in on the ground ground.” “A psychologically astute Iliad prelude featuring the heady, enormous title-crossed youth of future heroes Patroclus and Achilles.” “Though the principle points of the memoir are Miller’s dangle, the field is one who all who love the Iliad and its epigones will acknowledge. Finding out this book recalled me to the breathless sense of the oldschool-but-mask that I felt after I first tumble in love with the classics.” “Without lengthen a scholar’s homage to THE ILIAD and a startlingly authorized work of work by an incredibly proficient novel novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her dangle contemporary exercise on the Trojan battle and its heroes. The cessation consequence’s a book I would perchance well perhaps additionally no longer put down.” “Without lengthen a scholar’s homage to THE ILLIAD and a startlingly authorized work of work by an incredibly proficient novel novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her dangle contemporary exercise on the Trojan battle and its heroes. The cessation consequence’s a book I would perchance well perhaps additionally no longer put down.” “Beautifully carried out. . ..In prose as neat and spare because the riding poetry of Homer, Miller captures the depth and devotion of adolescent friendship and lets us judge in these lengthy-unimaginative boys…deepening and enriching a memoir that has been told for 3,000 years.” “Unparalleled… Beautifully descriptive and heartachingly lyrical, right here is a love memoir as gentle and intuitive as any you will gather.” “Hasty, staunch and incredibly rewarding…A outstanding fulfillment.” “I cherished it.” “I cherished this book. The language turned into timeless, the historical info were slipped in completely. I’m hoping SONG OF ACHILLES turns into piece of the high college summer season reading lists alongside PENELOPIAD.” “In the custom of Mary Renault… Miller draws on her knowledge of classical sources wisely… Neatly-paced, collaborating and tasteful.” “Madeline Miller’s vivid first contemporary…is a legend of enormous, passionate love between Achilles and Patroclus….[R]ewriting the Western world’s first and most appealing battle contemporary is activity to undertake. That she did it with such grace, vogue and suspense is unbelievable.” “Masterfully brings to existence an imaginative but advised imaginative and prescient of oldschool Greece featuring divinely human gods and elevated-than-existence mortals. She breaks novel ground retelling belief to be one of many field’s oldest tales about men in love and battle [and] unparalleled girls.” “Miller someway (and breathtakingly so) mixes high-action commercial plotting with writing of such elegant delicacy you most continuously want to smash and glance.” “Miller’s prose is extra poetic than nearly any translation of Homer… Right here’s a deeply affecting version of the Achilles memoir: a fully three-dimension man – a son, a father, husband and lover – now exists where a superhero beforehand stood and fought.” “One of 2012’s most thrilling debuts…seductive, vastly intriguing….[I]magining the intimate friendship between Achilles and the devoted Patroclus…Miller conjures…soulmates. The resulting contemporary is cinematic—one would perchance well perhaps boom account—in scope, but refreshingly, compellingly human intimately.” “Among the appealing novelistic adaptations of Homer in contemporary reminiscence, and it provides strikingly smartly-rounded and compassionate portrait of Achilles….[Miller] injects a newfound sense of suspense proper into a legend with an ending that has already been obvious.” “Highly efficient, ingenious, passionate, and beautifully written. ” “THE ILIAD activates Achilles’ satisfaction and his relationship with Patroclus, but Homer is sparing with the non-public—so noteworthy so as that, despite the proven fact that we judge of their friendship, we develop no longer observe it. THE SONG OF ACHILLES brings light to their love. Right here’s a ideal trying book.” “THE ILLIAD activates Achilles’ satisfaction and his relationship with Patroclus, but Homer is sparing with the non-public—so noteworthy so as that, despite the proven fact that we judge of their friendship, we develop no longer observe it. THE SONG OF ACHILLES brings light to their love. Right here’s a ideal trying book.” “The Song of Achilles…wishes to be read and enjoyed for itself, but if Madeline Miller’s contemporary sends the reader reduction to Homer and his successors, she is to be thanked for that as smartly.” “Wildly romantic [and] surprisingly suspenseful….[B]ringing these sad figures reduction to existence, making them men every other time, and whereas she’s at it, us[ing] her passionate companion piece to The Iliad as a delicate swipe at at the moment’s ongoing debate over homosexual marriage. Discuss updating the classics.” “You don’t must be aware of Homer’s The Iliad (or Brad Pitt’s Troy, for that matter) to gather Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles appealing….her explorations of ego, peril, and love’s many diversifications are both acquainted and novel….[A] timeless love memoir.” “[Miller] makes a persuasive argument for the timeliness of her field. …Miller’s a success debut specializes in Patroclus, a younger prince living in Achilles’ golden shadow. Miller also offers enlighten to heaps of the girls who were also consigned to the shadows.”

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