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Details

Description

1. 288 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version - his mother Danae, his trophy Medusa, and his wife Andromeda - but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all"--
2. Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one day cause the death of her father, the king of Argos, Danae finds herself stranded, pregnant, and alone in a remote fishing village-- forging a new life for her young son Perseus will be the hardest thing she has ever done. As a member of the Gorgons, a reclusive band of women who live deep in the woods, Medusa eschews contact with the outside world- until the day she finds an injured boy named Perseus in the forest. When her nomadic desert tribe's way of life is threatened, Andromeda knows that a sacrifice will be required to appease the gods-- until Perseus interferes and sets her life on a new path.As Perseus casts a shadow of violence and destruction across all three women's lives, reclaiming their voices is their only hope for lifting themselves into a better future. -- adapted from jacket

Subject

1. Perseus (Greek mythological character) > Fiction
2. Danaë (Greek mythological character) > Fiction
3. Medusa (Gorgon) > Fiction
4. Andromeda, Princess, daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia (Mythological character) > Fiction
5. Perseus (Greek mythological character)
6. Medusa (Gorgon)
7. Medusa
8. Andromeda, Princess, daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia (Mythological character)
9. Colección Dánae
10. Cadernos Andrómeda
11. Mythology, Greek > Fiction
12. Heroes > Fiction
13. Women > Fiction
14. Fate and fatalism > Fiction
15. Women
16. Gender identity
17. Mythology, Greek
18. Heroes
19. Fate and fatalism

Genre/Form

1. Novels.
2. Mythological fiction.
3. Fantasy fiction.
4. Fiction.

Call number

1. JFE 23-1480

Note

1. Place of publication from publisher's website.

Author

1. Heywood, Claire, author.

Title

1. The shadow of Perseus : a novel / Claire Heywood.

Publisher

1. [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Other form:

1. Online version: Heywood, Claire. Shadow of Perseus New York : Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC, 2023 9780593471562 (DLC) 2022026328

LCCN

1. 2022026327

ISBN

1. 9780593471555 hardcover
2. 0593471555 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 23-1480