The Song of Achilles

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    • $19.99

Publisher Description

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”
—Ann Patchett

“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad. An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller’s monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction’s brightest lights—and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series will delight in this unforgettable journey back to ancient Greece in the Age of Heroes.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
FD
Frazer Douglas
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:15
hr min
RELEASED
2012
March 6
PUBLISHER
HarperAudio
SIZE
548.1
MB

Customer Reviews

working listener 2023 ,

Takes you to a different place

I finished this book in three days. Took my time because I wanted to soak in the beautiful scenery described. This book pulled at my heart strings and gave me a very different view of Greek mythology. I would recommend!

rordogvangordog ,

beautiful

just read it. no explanation needed.

Daveathome ,

Trashy modern portrayal

Couldn’t finish. Not a classic. Trashy modern portrayal of classic literature. Tyler Durden would be ecstatic.

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