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The women of Troy : a novel / Pat Barker.
"Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean; it does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife, the defiant Hecuba, and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge."--Jacket flap.
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- ISBN: 9780385546690
- ISBN: 0385546696
- Physical Description: 284 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Mythological fiction. Novels. Fiction. Historical fiction. Mythological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington Public Library | F BARKER OCT 2021 | 39851001620344 | Adult Fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
PAT BARKER is the author of sixteen novels, beginning with her working class masterpiece Union Street in 1982. Her Regeneration Trilogy novels set in the First World War were awarded the Booker Prize and praised as one of the greatest historical novels in British literature. Her last novel, The Silence of the Girls, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Prize in the UK, and won the Independent Bookshop Award in 2019. She was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000. She lives in Durham, England.