The Penelopiad – 4/5 This short book was written as part of a mythology fiction project in the early 00s where contemporary writers took on classic myths. Karen Armstrong wrote an overall history of mytholy, David Grossman wrote about Samson and Delilah, AS Byatt wrote about Ragnorok. As she did with the Shakespeare project when she wrote Hag-Seed based in The Tempest, she knocked the ball out of the park with this one. I think this is in part because she already has written numerous […]
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The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
