{"product_id":"9780312311100","title":"Achilles : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAchilles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Elizabeth Cook\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest  warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters—among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. \u003ci\u003eAchilles \u003c\/i\u003eis an affirmation of the story's enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is a tiny treasure....If, as they say, every generation demands its own translation of \u003ci\u003eHomer\u003c\/i\u003e, Cook brings us here a \u003ci\u003eHomer \u003c\/i\u003efor the MTV generation.” —\u003ci\u003eSlate.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everything in this novel, except the number of pages, is larger than life, and in reading it we are returned to our own lives with a sense of larger possibility. This bright, fierce book reminds us that, however grievous, however inevitable our losses, we do not bear them alone.” —\u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This forceful re-creation of the life of Achilles sacrifices nothing to modernity....At the same time, this brief, intense novel is unmistakably modern in intent....  Fragments of keen, almost carnal prose have the cumulative effect of a requiem.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] poetic masterpiece, a psychologically acute portrait... Achilles is also unfailingly modern: swift, cinematic, sexually explicit, and ravishingly beautiful.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312311100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40652271616206,"sku":"9780312311100","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_9257040b-b8fb-4a1e-855d-cc687918b6f4.jpg?v=1639275407","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312311100","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}