?Miller's winning debut focuses on Patroclus, a young prince living in Achilles? golden shadow. This is a beautiful book., Miller somehow (and breathtakingly so) mixes high-action commercial plotting with writing of such beautiful delicacy you sometimes have to stop and stare., ' makes a persuasive argument for the timeliness of her subject. THE SONG OF ACHILLES brings light to their love. THE ILLIAD turns on Achilles' pride and his relationship with Patroclus, but Homer is sparing with the personal-so much so that, though we believe in their friendship, we do not understand it. "Mary Renault lives again!" -Emma Donoghue, author of Room
THE SONG OF ACHILLES SERIES
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. Now Available in Hardcover A New York Times Bestseller "At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art.A book I could not put down." -Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe 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.
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