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While it does deal with the Trojan war and its main participants The Song of Achilles is first a love story about Patroclus a rather. Nevertheless she has written.

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The problem is one of both structure and tone.

. The two learn and train together. There are three pages of praise for The Song of Achilles inside my Bloomsbury paperback edition. Its the story of Achilles and Patroclus a beautiful tribute as envisioned by a teacher-writer with a Masters in Latin and Ancient Greek and a strong background of the.

Song of Achilles wasnt atrocious it was more a mixed bag of success and failure. The prose is beautifully written and. It is subtitled.

1010 I came into reading this book fresh off the heels of listening to Circe also by Madeline Miller. The song of achilles is a 2011 novel by american writer madeline millerset during the greek heroic age it is an adaptation of homers iliad as told from the perspective of patroclusthe novel. Achilles the best of all the Greeks son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus is strong swift and beautifulirresistible to all who meet him.

Though their paths should not cross Achilles befriends Patroclus the shamed prince. In The Song of Achilles Miller builds three-dimensional characters even when one of the protagonists Achilles is more god than human. Patroclus is an awkward.

The Song of Achilles follows Patroclus a Greek prince who falls in love with the famed warrior Achilles. I read this book awestruck with admiration for the quality of. Spoiler-free Summary of The Song of Achilles.

This was the book that Instagram voted for me to read this month. For the publicity material to call Madeline Millers debut novel The Song of Achilles breathtakingly original is disingenuous to say the least. The Iliad has focus and weight because it zeroes in on what is despite its length a very narrow subject albeit with vast.

An Excavation of the Iliad and described in her authors note as a reckless dismissal of seven-eighths of the poem. Once were at Troy which is two hundred or so pages into the. Except it does not feel reckless at all but.

There he becomes acquainted with King Peleus and his demi-god son Achilles destined for fame and glory. Final Thoughts from the Review Author. We read The Song of Achilles as our Book of the Month for Hype or Like Friday a Goodreads group I co-created with Britt and Larkin and Im looking forward to reading the reviews.

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