House of names
(Book)
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children, spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling. In House of Names, Colm Tóibín 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. He brilliantly inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth's most powerful villains to reveal the love, lust, and pain she feels. Told in fours parts, this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess, who will herself be murdered by her own son, Orestes. It is Orestes' 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.
Notes
Tóibín, C. (2017). House of names. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York, Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Tóibín, Colm, 1955-. 2017. House of Names. New York, Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, House of Names. New York, Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Tóibín, Colm. House of Names. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York, Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, 2017.
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