The Songs of the Kings

"In recasting a tale told in Euripides' IPHEGNIA AT AULIS, involving characters made famous by Homer's ILIAD, Barry Unsworth presumably hopes to square up to these literary forebears, spin a good yarn, and persuade modern readers that his story carries some relevance to their lives today. He succeeds in all of these aims, to a limited extent....His story mirrors, to good effect, the plot movement of the ILIAD, from long inaction to extreme violence, and the characters...are rounded and convincing. Unsworth writes beautiful sentences in the Apollonian style."Barry Unsworth is the author of 'The Songs of the Kings' with ISBN 9780754083740 and ISBN 0754083748.