
House of Names
Colm Toibin(Author)
SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO (Publisher)
Published on 9. May 2017
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-5082-2790-8 (ISBN)
Description
Taoibain brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that listeners not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth's most powerful villains to reveal the love, lust, and pain she feels. Told in four parts, this is a 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's 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.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
Audio CD
Dimensions
Height: 149 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Duration
Dauer: 527 min
Weight
171 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5082-2790-8 (9781508227908)
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Persons
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.