The women of Troy : a novel / Pat Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Pat, 1943- author.

Series:

Barker, Pat, 1943- Troy. 2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Briseis (Greek mythological character)--Fiction.

Briseis.

Hecuba, Queen of Troy--Fiction.

Hecuba.

Hecuba, Queen of Troy.

Briseis (Greek mythological character).

Revenge--Fiction.

Revenge.

Trojan War--Fiction.

Trojan War.

Troy (Extinct city)--Fiction.

Troy (Extinct city).

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Mythological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

284 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [2021]

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.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.

Contains:

Novelization of: Homer. Iliad.

ISBN:

9780385546690

0385546696

OCLC:

1197725442