Pat Barker Archives - Novel Visits https://novelvisits.com/reviews/authors/pat-barker/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:26:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Silence of the Girls & The Song of Achilles | Review https://novelvisits.com/the-silence-of-the-girls-the-song-of-achilles-review/ https://novelvisits.com/the-silence-of-the-girls-the-song-of-achilles-review/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:00:45 +0000 https://novelvisits.com/?p=5990 Last week as I read The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker I found it impossible to separate its story form that of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I read The Song of Achilles less than four months ago and it remained vivid in my mind. These novels are each retellings of The Iliad, but...

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]]> Last week as I read The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker I found it impossible to separate its story form that of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I read The Song of Achilles less than four months ago and it remained vivid in my mind. These novels are each retellings of The Iliad, but from different perspectives. As such they have much, much in common. Because I read them so close together, neither will ever be able to stand completely alone for me and that’s okay. Today, I’m happy to share a bit about both books including how very much I enjoyed them.

Novel Visits Review of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

    The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker          The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Publisher: Doubleday                                              Publisher: Ecco
  Release Date: September 4, 2018                            Release Date: March 6, 2012
     Length: 304 pages                                                      Length: 352 pages
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“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles…How the epithets pile up. We never call him any of those things; we call him “the butcher.”…

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