| Description |
261 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, the murderess Clytemnestra tells of the deception of Agamemnon, how he sacrificed her eldest daughter - her beloved Iphigenia - to the Trojan campaign; how Clytemnestra used what power she had, seducing the prisoner Aegisthus, turning the government against its lord; plotting the many long years until her beacon fires announce the king's return. Electra, daughter of a murdered father, loyal subject of the rightful king, watches Clytemnestra and her lover with cold anger and slow-burning cunning. She watches, as they walk the gardens and corridors of the house of Atreus. She waits for the traitors to become complacent, to believe they are finally safe; she waits for her exiled brother, Orestes, for the boy to become a warrior, for fate to follow him home. She watches and she waits, until her spies announce her brother's return. |
| Notes |
"From the thrilling imagination of bestselling award-winning Colm Tóibín comes this ambitions violent and moden retelling of one of our oldest and most enduring stories"--Back cover |
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Copyright © The Heather Blazing Ltd 2017 |
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Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae -- Fiction.
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Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) -- Fiction.
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Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) -- Fiction.
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Electra (Greek mythological figure) -- Fiction.
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Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.
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Adultery -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Betrayal -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Fiction.
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Revenge -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Historical fiction.
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Reading nook.
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| ISBN |
9781760551421 |
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