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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra's spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling and her children... In House of Names, Colm Toibin brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He brilliantly...