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by Christopher Logue
University of Chicago Press, 2003
Paper: 978-0-226-49190-5
Library of Congress Classification PR6023.O38W36 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 821.914

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In his brilliant rendering of eight books of Homer's Iliad, Logue here retells some of the most evocative episodes of the war classic, including the death of Patroclus and Achilles's fateful return to battle, that sealed the doom of Troy. Compulsively readable, Logue's poetry flies off the page, and his compelling descriptions of the horrors of war have a surreal, dreamlike quality that has been compared to the films of Kurosawa. Retaining the great poem's story line but rewriting every incident, Logue brings the Trojan War to life for modern audiences.

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