{"product_id":"the-rage-of-achilles-paperback","title":"The Rage of Achilles - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTerence Hawkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The ancient world feels new again in Terence Hawkins' \u003cem\u003eThe Rage of Achilles\u003c\/em\u003e, which combines a raw, idiomatic retelling of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e with a searching assay of human consciousness. Unique and invigorating.\"-Louis Bayard, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Pale Blue Eye\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Rage of Achilles\u003c\/em\u003e, Terence Hawkins re-imagines the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e as a novel and a Trojan War that really happened. Though he adopts Homer's characters, those fabled warriors are no more noble than the scared, tired grunts they command, exhausted and bitter after ten years of brutal Bronze Age warfare. And however savage the fighting, over all hangs the terrible truth that the objective of combat is not glory, but the enslavement of the defeated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis realism extends to the gods themselves. Informed by Julian Jaynes' groundbreaking theory of the bicameral mind-the basis of HBO's \"Westworld\"-\u003cem\u003eThe Rage of Achilles\u003c\/em\u003e takes place in a world in which the modern human consciousness struggles painfully to be born. The gods are only the hallucinations of men and women desperate to be told what to do in a terrifying and confusing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in taut, elegant prose that captures both the Homeric lyric and military grit, \u003cem\u003eThe Rage of Achilles\u003c\/em\u003e is a fast-moving take on literature's foundational epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52524361842995,"sku":"9798986601533","price":30.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dFl6eFd5STZtb3BjbnJmeWZmUWE0dz09.webp?v=1760587008","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-rage-of-achilles-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}