03791cam a2200361 4500 526180234 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781508227953 1508227950 12d5a549-475d-418c-8446-bd3ac099c03f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2841575 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tóibín, Colm. House of Names [Libby Audiobook]. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 241MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 241MB. HTML:<b>* A <i>Washington Post</i> Notable Fiction Book of the Year<br /> * Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>The Boston Globe</i>, <i>St. Louis Dispatch</i><br /> <br /> From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—"brilliant...gripping...high drama...made tangible and graphic in Tóibín's lush prose" (<i>Booklist</i>, starred review).</b><br /> "I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after nine years at war.<br /> <br /> Judged, despised, cursed by gods, Clytemnestra reveals the tragic saga that led to these bloody actions: how her husband deceived her eldest daughter Iphigeneia with a promise of marriage to Achilles, only to sacrifice her; how she seduced and collaborated with the prisoner Aegisthus; how Agamemnon came back with a lover himself; and how Clytemnestra finally achieved her vengeance for his stunning betrayal—his quest for victory, greater than his love for his child.<br /> <br /> <i>House of Names</i> "is a disturbingly contemporary story of a powerful woman caught between the demands of her ambition and the constraints on her gender...Never before has Tóibín demonstrated such range," (<i>The Washington Post).</i> He brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. Told in four parts, this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess, who will herself be murdered by her own son, Orestes. It is Orestes's story, too: his capture by the forces of his mother's lover Aegisthus, his escape and his exile. And it is the story of the vengeful Electra, who watches over her mother and Aegisthus with cold anger and slow calculation, until, on the return of her brother, she has the fates of both of them in her hands. Classic Literature. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Audie Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Stevenson, Juliet. Anson, Charlie. Nixon, Pippa. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2841575-HouseOfNames.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=12d5a549-475d-418c-8446-bd3ac099c03f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2841575-HouseOfNames.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=12d5a549-475d-418c-8446-bd3ac099c03f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)