![]() That she did it with such grace, style and suspense is astonishing.” - Dallas Morning News “Madeline Miller’s brilliant first novel.is a story of great, passionate love between Achilles and Patroclus.ewriting the Western world’s first and greatest war novel is an awesome task to undertake. “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.her explorations of ego, grief, and love’s many permutations are both familiar and new. The resulting novel is cinematic-one might say epic-in scope, but refreshingly, compellingly human in detail.” - Vogue “One of 2012’s most exciting ductive, hugely entertaining.magining the intimate friendship between Achilles and the devoted Patroclus.Miller conjures.soulmates. “Beautifully done.In prose as clean and spare as the driving poetry of Homer, Miller captures the intensity and devotion of adolescent friendship and lets us believe in these long-dead epening and enriching a tale that has been told for 3,000 years.” - Washington Post “Powerful, inventive, passionate, and beautifully written. injects a newfound sense of suspense into a story with an ending that has already been determined.” - Wall Street Journal “One of the best novelistic adaptations of Homer in recent memory, and it offers strikingly well-rounded and compassionate portrait of Achilles. Talk about updating the classics.” - Time magazine “Wildly romantic surprisingly suspenseful.ringing those dark figures back to life, making them men again, and while she’s at it, us her passionate companion piece to The Iliad as a subtle swipe at today’s ongoing debate over gay marriage. “Fast, true and incredibly rewarding…A remarkable achievement.” - USA Today ![]() Geake, Brown University Bookstore, Providence, RI Miller's homage to The Iliad is sharp and strengthened by her knowledge and exquisite prose.” By focusing on Achilles' near-fatherly love for Patroclus, we see an intimate side of the great Achilles, long overshadowed by Homer's portrayal of his exploits in war and his 'great rage' against the Trojans. “It's a daunting effort to recast an ancient tale, but classics scholar Miller proves that she is worthy of the task with this finely wrought debut grafted from the historical root of the Trojan War. Geake, Brown University Bookstore, Providence, RI Fall '12 Reading Group List “It's a daunting effort to recast an ancient tale, but classics scholar Miller proves that she is worth of the task with this finely wrought debut grafted from the historical root of the Trojan War.
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