The first clash of the armies in Logue's "Heroic . . . brilliant" version of Homer's Iliad ("The New York Times Book Review") "Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, " "Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--" "Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: " ""Kill! Kill for me!" "Better to die than live without killing!"" "Who says prayer does no good?" Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" ("The New York Review of ...
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The first clash of the armies in Logue's "Heroic . . . brilliant" version of Homer's Iliad ("The New York Times Book Review") "Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, " "Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--" "Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: " ""Kill! Kill for me!" "Better to die than live without killing!"" "Who says prayer does no good?" Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" ("The New York Review of Books"). Here in "All Day Permanent Red "is doomed Hector, the lion, "slam-scattering the herd" at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a "sky-wide Venetian blind." Here is an arrow's tunnel, "the width of a lipstick," through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.
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Good. The book is nice and 100% readable, but the book has visible wear which may include stains, scuffs, scratches, folded edges, sticker glue, highlighting, notes, and worn corners.
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Like New in Like New jacket. Size: 8x5x0; A nice hardcover in a protective Mylar sleeve with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours a tracking number and delivery confirmation.
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Fine in Fine jacket. New York, 2003. First American edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($18.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Ships in well padded box.