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32 pp.
| Getty |
September, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-1-60606-085-8$19.95
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4-6
The text of this illustrated volume is "inspired by Homer's Iliad and other stories of ancient Greece." The writing, in free verse (and in very small type), is complex and poetic. Angular, imaginative illustrations are visually striking and lend themselves well to emphasizing the theme of the doomed warrior.