Title of
novel: Antigone and Creon: Guardians of Thebes
Authors
of novel: Victoria Grossack & Alice Underwood
Website: www.tapestryofbronze.com
Genre: Historical Fiction
ISBN-13: 978-1482794410
Number of pages: 432 pages
Publisher: Create Space
Reviewed by Bob
Mielke, Professor of English at Truman State University
Antigone and Creon:
Guardians of Thebes by Victoria Grossack
and Alice Underwood is their fifth, latest and best installment of the
Tapestry of
Bronze series.
Antigone is certainly
the most iconic and evergreen character in Greek legend, a timeless embodiment
of civil disobedience for the right reasons. She gives our authors a lot to work
with. Appropriately, they do her full justice. Not only is she fleshed out
psychologically far beyond what Sophocles could accomplish in his drama; her
life is given surprising (but defensible) plot twists. So -- as was not the case
with their earlier Jocasta -- the
complacent reader will have the narrative rug pulled out from under them on
occasion.
This book
works on every level: as a thriller and a mystery, as a deep evocation of
ancient Greece right down to the minutiae of its folkways, as thoughtful
entertainment. Grossack and Underwood join the likes of Mary Renault, Robert
Graves and Norman Mailer as unsurpassed revivifiers of antiquity. Hollywood
should option this!
Meanwhile, prepare to
be enthralled by the print version....
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So glad to see this review! I have not read the book but after enjoying one of Victoria Grossack's other books it will go on my "definitely read" list. She really knows how to make characters we have known in the past take on life and draw us into them.
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