6/28/2023 0 Comments The voyage home pat barkerJonny Lee Miller in a film adaptation of Regeneration (1997). To put it bluntly (as Barker’s women do), Agamemnon prefers “the back gate” and Achilles is “quick”. “It’s the first time I’ve had a group of women sitting together over a dish of wine talking about what men are like in bed,” she says. One of four books in contention for the Costa novel of the year, and with a film deal just signed, it has been widely acclaimed as a triumphant departure from her familiar stamping grounds of the first and second world wars. There are 11 so far ranging across fiction and non-fiction and she is particularly taken with an Odyssey-based memoir by Daniel Mendelsohn, which points out that, for all its derring-do, the Homeric epic revolves around a bed (the one to which Odysseus returns and Penelope has kept warm, accepting him back as her husband only when he recognises it as “a living tree”).īarker’s contribution to this growing subgenre is The Silence of the Girls, which looks at Homer’s other epic, the Iliad, from the vantage point of the enslaved Trojan queen, Briseis. P at Barker is sitting in a Durham pub, making a back-of-an-envelope list of all the myth-related books that have been published in the last couple of years.
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