Ransom Contributor(s): Malouf, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307475247 ISBN-13: 9780307475244 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Fiction | War & Military |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.31" W x 7.98" (0.57 lbs) 240 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling. |