Book Summary: "We know what will happen to Achilles, and it can't change: but seen through Hawkins' eyes and ears, the story will be new and grippingly real to readers of this age."-John Crowley, World Fantasy Award Winner and author of Ka and Little, Big In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins re-imagines the Iliad as a novel and a Trojan War that really happened. Terence Hawkins. Welcome About. About Yale Writers' Conference Books and Stories. The Rage of Achilles American Neolithic Turing's Graveyard STORIES Media Blog Events Writers' Services Braincandy WHERE TO BUY Books; American Neolithic. Julia Glass said, "You will be amazed at Terence Hawkins’s prodigious imagination, his Bowie-sharp wit, and the skill with which he tells a story." Hawkins' first novel, The Rage of Achilles, is a prose account of the Iliad in modern and sometimes brutal prose/5(46).
Book Summary: "We know what will happen to Achilles, and it can't change: but seen through Hawkins' eyes and ears, the story will be new and grippingly real to readers of this age."-John Crowley, World Fantasy Award Winner and author of Ka and Little, Big In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins re-imagines the Iliad as a novel and a Trojan War that really happened. "The Rage of Achilles is that rare thing-a genuinely fresh take on a classic text. Terence Hawkins' modern retelling of "The Iliad" has the paradoxical, invigorating effect of making Homer's epic feel oddly familiar, and of highlighting its deep strangeness at the same time." -Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Leftovers. THE RAGE OF ACHILLES. NOW AVAILABLE! In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins re-imagines the Iliad as a Trojan War that really www.doorway.ru's familiar characters appear as no more heroic than the tired, scared grunts they command, bitter and exhausted after ten years of brutal Bronze Age warfare.
Hawkins' first novel, The Rage of Achilles, is a prose account of the Iliad in modern and sometimes brutal prose. Based on the bicameral mind theories of Julian Jaynes--also the conceptual basis for HBO's Westworld--it describes not only an historical Trojan War, but a revolution in human consciousness. The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins. likes. The Iliad as it might have really happened, informed by the realities of Bronze Age warfare and Julian Jaynes' theories of the bicameral mind. “The ancient world feels new again in Terence Hawkins' "The Rage of Achilles," which, in the space of pages, combines a raw, idiomatic retelling of "The Iliad" with a searching assay of human consciousness. Unique and invigorating.” From John Crowley, author of Little, Big and Ka and World Fantasy Award winner.
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