THE SONG OF TROY.

London: Orion, 1998. 404 pp, 9 1/2" H. 2 b&w maps. "Recounts the tragic and terrible saga of the Trojan War, a three-thousand-year-old tale of enduring love, abiding hate, vengeance, betrayal, honour and sacrifice. The narrative is passed from one character to another: Priam, King of Troy, doomed to make the wrong decisions for the right reasons; the Greek princess Helen, a self-indulgent beauty who deserts her boring husband for the sake of an equally self-indulgent beauty, the Trojan prince Paris; the haunted fighting machine, Achilles; the heroically noble Hektor; the subtle and brilliant Odysseus; Agamemnon, King of Kings, who consents to the unspeakable in order to launch his thousand ships, and thus incurs the enmity of his terrifying wife, Klytemnestra. But where does human folly end? And where does the pitiless retribution of the Gods begin? The characters dazzle, swinging our sympathies from Greece to Troy and back again as each of them moves inexorably towards a fate even the Gods cannot avert." Very slight lean to the spine, minor wrinkling at the top of the spine, tiny ink mark on the fore-edge of the text block. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at the top edge, light rubbing on panels. . Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Sarah Perkins, dust jacket art..