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The Song of Achilles

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Madeline Miller

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The Song of Achilles
 

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Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller grew up in Philadelphia, has a BA and MA from Brown University in Latin and Ancient Greek, and has been teaching both for the past nine years. She has also studied at the Yale School of Drama, specializing in adapting classical tales to a modern audience. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Song of Achilles is her first novel.
 



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The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
  • E-Book
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  • 3/6/2012
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The Song of Achilles Intl
The Song of Achilles Intl
Madeline Miller
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  • 9780062126122
  • 3/6/2012
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"You don't need to be familiar with Homer's The Iliad (or Brad Pitt's Troy, for that matter) to find Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles spellbinding. While classics scholar Miller meticulously follows Greek mythology, her explorations of ego, grief, and love's many permutations are both familiar and new. In this fictional retelling of the Trojan War, military heroics are subsumed into a timeless love story."


- O magazine
"A psychologically astute Iliad prelude featuring the heady, star-crossed adolescence of future heroes Patroclus and Achilles."


- Vogue
"Masterfully brings to life an imaginative yet informed vision of ancient Greece featuring divinely human gods and larger-than-life mortals. She breaks new ground retelling one of the world's oldest stories about men in love and war [and] extraordinary women."


- Publishers Weekly (starred review), Pick of the Week
"A masterly vision of the drama, valor, and tragedy of the Trojan War. Readers who loved Mary Renault's epic novels will be thrilled with Miller's portrayal of ancient Greece. This reviewer can't wait to see what she writes next."


- Library Journal (starred review)
"Last year saw Stephen Mitchell's wonderful new translation of "The Iliad"; 2012 brings this debut novel, a retelling of Homer's tale about the Trojan War, focused on the powerful bond between the Greek hero Achilles and his comrade Patroclus, the exiled prince. The classics never get old. (March 6)"



- Newsday
"These days, even Homer's Iliad is not safe from new interpretations: Madeline Miller's novel, The Song of Achilles (HarperCollins) brilliantly unmasks the doomed love affair between soldiers Achilles and Patroclus."



- The Advocate
"A captivating retelling of THE ILIAD and events leading up to it through the point of view of Patroclus: it's a hard book to put down, and any classicist will be enthralled by her characterisation of the goddess Thetis, which carries the true savagery and chill of antiquity."


- Donna Tartt, The Times
"A modern take on The Iliad, full of love and feats of glory and told in an open, lyric, loose-limbed fashion that should appeal to many readers.... Next up from Miller-the story of Circe...historical fiction fans, get in on the ground floor."


- Library Journal
"I loved this book. The language was timeless, the historical details were slipped in perfectly. I hope SONG OF ACHILLES becomes part of the high school summer reading lists alongside PENELOPIAD."



- Helen Simonson, bestselling author of MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND
"Although the details of the story are Miller's own, the world is one that all who love the Iliad and its epigones will recognize. Reading this book recalled me to the breathless sense of the ancient-yet-present that I felt when I first fell in love with the classics."


- Catherine Conybeare, Professor of Classics, Bryn Mawr College
"The Iliad 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. "The Song of Achilles" brings light to their love. This is a beautiful book."


- Zachary Mason, author of THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY
"Miller somehow (and breathtakingly so) mixes high-action commercial plotting with writing of such beautiful delicacy you sometimes have to stop and stare."


- The Independent
"In the tradition of Mary Renault... Miller draws on her knowledge of classical sources wisely. Well-paced, engaging and tasteful."


- London Times Literary Supplement
"Extraordinary. Beautifully descriptive and heartachingly lyrical, this is a love story as sensitive and intuitive as any you will find."


- Daily Mail