In addition, he exemplifies the warrior who cannot survive the peace. In Haynes’s novel, her narratives show the frustration of a woman left behind while her husband chooses danger over family ties. The characters are thin and caricatured feminine stereotypes in their perspectives: Penelope is the worst of these.her nagging retelling or the story of Odysseus to the man himself through letters was nothing short of annoying. The adventures that Penelope describes are her sarcastic, and increasingly angry, summaries of Odysseus’s wanderings from Homer’s Odyssey. THIS book jumps around from multiple women's perceptive over time and completely loses the flow. Having listened to 'The Silence of the Girls' this contrast was particularly stark that book had chosen the narrative flow of the war as retold from one woman's perspective (and secondarily another man's). A Thousand Ships Themes The Meaning of a Hero In her Afterword, Haynes describes her novel as an attempt to write an epic in which heroism does not belong solely to men and tragic consequences of war solely to women (345). The second element to this book was the disappointing embodiment of the events well-know through classical literature. Perhaps I might have enjoyed it more if a professional narrator had been employed, and there are many good ones, and it is a specific skill that the author clearly does not possess.
Then I realised that the book is narrated by the author.
Harper, 27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-306539-0 The women of the Trojan War take center stage in this excellent take on the Greek classics from.
The first thing that struck me about this audiobook was the narrator: flat and lacking the ability to bring the words to life. BUY THIS BOOK A Thousand Ships Natalie Haynes.
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