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The women of Troy : a novel / Pat Barker.

Barker, Pat, 1943- (author.). Homer. Novelization of (work): Iliad. (Added Author).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

  • 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.
Subject: Briseis (Greek mythological character) > Fiction.
Hecuba, Queen of Troy > Fiction.
Briseis (Greek mythological character)
Hecuba, Queen of Troy.
Revenge > Fiction.
Trojan War > Fiction.
Troy (Extinct city) > Fiction.
FICTION / Historical / Ancient.
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
Revenge.
Turkey > Troy (Extinct city)
Genre: Historical fiction.
Mythological fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mythological fiction.

Available copies

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library.

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Burlington Public Library F BARKER OCT 2021 39851001620344 Adult Fiction Copy hold Available -

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520 . ‡a"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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