| Achilles:A Love Story: A Novel of the Trojan War |  | Author: Byrne Fone
Publisher: CreateSpace
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 228
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1452897905
EAN: 9781452897905
ASIN: 1452897905
Publication Date: July 1, 2010
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Revised Edition: February 2012 By the author of American Revolution: A Gay Novel (Keywords: Gay, American, President) ACHILLES: A LOVE STORY. A GAY NOVEL OF THE TROJAN WAR (Revised Edition: February 2012) Achilles: A Love Story (2010) is the first modern novel to re-imagine the "Iliad" as what ancient readers believed it to be: not only a tale of battles and exemplary heroism, but also as the love story of Achilles, unrivalled hero and the most beautiful man in the world and the handsome and heroic Patroclus. Their tragic tale is indeed one of the greatest and earliest gay love stories ever told. But in the "Iliad" Homer also hints at another love story: that of the handsome Prince Antilochus for Achilles. "Achilles: A Love Story," a gay novel of the Trojan War, movingly creates their erotic and tragic passion as it plays out against the legendary battles of the Trojan war. In the tradition of Mary Renault’s, "The Persian Boy" and "Fire From Heaven," Yourcenar’s "Memoirs of Hadrian"’ and Vidal’s "Julian," "Achilles: A Love Story" creates the passionate, epic, and tragic tale of Antilochus and Achilles, a story told by no other writer. Reader/reviewers have called “Achilles: A Love Story” a “beautifully written retelling of a beautiful story, the Iliad, from a homoerotic perspective” and noted that the book is "an unapologetic celebration of male love and valor." The book's “real power is in reconstructing a mythical epoch in such a realistic way, that you are left convinced that the ancients truly lived among the sights and sounds the author so adeptly describes." The author “brings alive from antiquity the passions of love and war. He makes these iconic characters and events profoundly knowable and relevant. Whether Homer's Iliad is well-trodden ground or uncharted territory, you're in for a vivid, engaging and thoroughly satisfying story” and ”if you are a devotee of history, fiction, romance, and a darned good read, I highly recommend "Achilles: A Love Story" as the fulfillment of them all. Five stars.”
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