“Le Guin has researched this ancient world assiduously, and her measured, understated prose captures with equal skill the permutations of established ritual and ceremony and the sensations of the battlefield. is a moving testament to the conversations that great writers sustain through the centuries.” “Le Guin has her own modesty, and would not claim to have superseded Virgil’s achievement. asserts Lavinia as a real person in her own right, while at the same time leaving her subject to her immutable role in The Aeneid. The contrast is intriguing, and adds a surprising and interesting depth to what would in any event have been an exceedingly well-told tale.” This is a work of passion, written with cool expertise: a cracker.” “.ranging through historical, political and spiritual arenas, across centuries, through dreams and poems and geographical fact. A luminous novel that should appeal across genres and generations.” “With this characteristically graceful retelling of the final stages of Virgil’s Aeneid, one of the master fabulists of our time crowns a great career. It’s a novel that deserves to be ranked with Robert Graves’s I, Claudius.” “Le Guin is famous for creating alternative worlds (as in Left Hand of Darkness), and she approaches Lavinia’s world, from which Western civilization took its course, as unique and strange as any fantasy.
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