The Song of Troy
de Colleen Mccullough
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- used - very good/none - paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0752817639
- ISBN 13
- 9780752817637
- Librería
-
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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This book has been read, very minor wear on edges of covers from normal storage, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, some creases.
"It was a clash of arms that would echo through the millennia: a hard-fought conflict born of love, pride, greed and revenge; a decade-long siege of the ancient world's greatest city from which nobody will escape unscathed. As urgent and passionate as if told for the first time, international besteller Colleen McCullough breathes life into legend, swinging our sympathies from Greece to Troy and back again as they move inexorably towards a fate not even the gods themselves can avert. Here are Greek princess Helen, sensuous and self-indulgent, who deserts a dull husband for the sake of the equally self-indulgent Trojan prince Paris; the haunted warrior Achilles; the heroically noble Hektor; the subtle and brilliant Odysseus; Priam, King of Troy, doomed to make the wrong decisions for the right reasons; and Agamemnon, King of Kings, who consents to the unspeakable to launch his thousand ships, incurring the terrifying wrath of his wife, Klytemnestra." Good Reads
"Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and Tim. Raised by her mother in Wellington and then Sydney, McCullough began writing stories at age 5. She flourished at Catholic schools and earned a physiology degree from the University of New South Wales in 1963. Planning become a doctor, she found that she had a violent allergy to hospital soap and turned instead to neurophysiology – the study of the nervous system's functions. She found jobs first in London and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. After her beloved younger brother Carl died in 1965 at age 25 while rescuing two drowning women in the waters off Crete, a shattered McCullough quit writing. She finally returned to her craft in 1974 with Tim, a critically acclaimed novel about the romance between a female executive and a younger, mentally disabled gardener. As always, the author proved her toughest critic: "Actually," she said, "it was an icky book, saccharine sweet." A year later, while on a paltry $10,000 annual salary as a Yale researcher, McCullough – just "Col" to her friends – began work on the sprawling The Thorn Birds, about the lives and loves of three generations of an Australian family. Many of its details were drawn from her mother's family's experience as migrant workers, and one character, Dane, was based on brother Carl. Though some reviews were scathing, millions of readers worldwide got caught up in her tales of doomed love and other natural calamities. The paperback rights sold for an astonishing $1.9 million. In all, McCullough wrote 11 novels." Good Reads
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Detalles
- Librería
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 143-2023
- Título
- The Song of Troy
- Autor
- Colleen Mccullough
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- used - very good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- none - paperback
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0752817639
- ISBN 13
- 9780752817637
- Editorial
- Orion Books
- Lugar de publicación
- United Kingdom
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Páginas
- 483
- Tamaño
- 17.6 x 11.1 cm
- Palabras clave
- Fiction, Historical, Troy
Términos de venta
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Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art
Miembro de Biblio desde 2023
Oakville, Ontario
Sobre Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art
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