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All Day Permanent Red - by Christopher Logue (Paperback)

Name: All Day Permanent Red - by Christopher Logue (Paperback)
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SKU: 1011760163
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Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: "Kill!
About the Author: Christopher Logue is a screenwriter, a film actor, and the author of several books of poems.
64 Pages
Poetry, European

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Originally published in 2003 by Faber and Faber Ltd., London.

Book Synopsis

Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

"Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!"

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, "slam-scattering the herd" at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a "sky-wide Venetian blind." Here is an arrow's tunnel, "the width of a lipstick," through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.

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"No classical scholar, no critic, has voiced more concisely the lasting impact of Homer." --George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Christopher Logue is a screenwriter, a film actor, and the author of several books of poems. He lives in London, England.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.26 Inches (H) x 5.56 Inches (W) x .2 Inches (D)

Weight: .2 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 64

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: European

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Format: Paperback

Author: Christopher Logue

Language: English

Street Date: June 23, 2004

TCIN: 1011760163

UPC: 9780374529291

Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-5668

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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