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About The Rage Of Achilles
Product Description "We know what will happen to Achilles, and it can't change: but through Hawkins' eyes and ears, the story will be new and grippingly real to readers of this age."—John Crowley, World Fantasy Award Winner and author of Ka and Little, BigIn The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins recounts the Iliad as a novel and imagines a Trojan War that really happened. Though he adopts Homer's characters, those fabled warriors are no more noble than the scared, tired grunts they command, exhausted and bitter after ten years of brutal Bronze Age warfare. And however savage the fighting, over all hangs the terrible truth that the objective of combat is not glory, but the enslavement of the defeated.His realism extends to the gods themselves. Informed by Julian Jaynes' groundbreaking theory of the bicameral mind-the basis of HBO's "Westworld"-The Rage of Achilles takes place in a world in which the modern human consciousness struggles painfully to be born. The gods are only the hallucinations of men and women desperate to be told what to do in a terrifying and confusing world.Told in taut, elegant prose that captures both the Homeric lyric and military grit, The Rage of Achilles is a fast-moving take on literature's foundational epic. Review "Hawkins' tale moves with the force of a cyclone. . . It will be impossible not to be entertained and moved by this rendering of the age-old story."-Historical Novels Review"The ancient world feels new again in Terence Hawkins' The Rage of Achilles, which . . . combines a raw, idiomatic retelling of the Iliad with a searching assay of human consciousness. Unique and invigorating."-Louis Bayard, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln and The Pale Blue Eye."The Rage of Achilles is that rare thing-a genuinely fresh take on a classic text. Terence Hawkins' modern retelling of "The Iliad" has the paradoxical, invigorating effect of making Homer's epic feel oddly familiar, and of highlighting its deep strangeness at the same time." -Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Leftovers"Hawkins provides much new insight on the tale . . . and turns something ancient into a new read, worthy of a second viewing. The Rage of Achilles is a fine spin on Homer's classical tale, a highly recommended read."- Midwest Book Review"Hawkins' novel explores war with all its smells, terrors, and blood. It is the kind of heart-pumping, edge-of-your-seat book that readers long for and diligently seek."-History and Women
