The Troy Novels by Lindsay Clarke
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Overview: Lindsay Clarke (born 1939, Halifax, West Yorkshire) is a British novelist. He was educated at Heath Grammar School in Halifax and at King’s College Cambridge. He worked in education for many years, in Africa, America and the UK, before becoming a full-time writer. Clarke lectures in creative writing at Cardiff University, is a Creative Consultant to The Pushkin Trust in Northern Ireland, and teaches writing workshops in Frome and London. Four of his radio plays were broadcast by the BBC and a number of his articles and reviews have been published in ‘Resurgence’ and ‘The London Magazine.’ In 2014 he was awarded a Civil List Pension ‘in recognition of services to literature.’
Genre: Historical Fiction
The War At Troy
Vigorous new life is breathed into the myth’s of Homer’s Iliad in Lindsay Clarke’s new dramatic retelling of the wars fought for the Bronze Age City of Troy. Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector are skilfully rejuvenated in this startlingly contemporary drama of the passions. The people who lived in those days were closer to gods than we are, and great deeds and marvels were commoner then, which is why the stories we have from them are nobler and richer than our own. So that those stories should not pass from the earth, I have decided to set down everything I know of the stories of the war at Troy — of the way it began, of the way it was fought, and of the way in which it was ended. With these words, Phemius the bard of Ithaca and friend to Odysseus, opens Lindsay Clarke’s compelling new retelling of the myths and legends that grew up around the war that was fought for the Bronze Age city of Troy and have magnetized the imagination of the world ever since. their destinies in the timeless zone where myth and history intersect and where the conflicts of the human heart are mirrored by quarrels among immortal gods. Peleus and Thetis, Paris and Helen, Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, Achilles, Odysseus and Hector — all are given vigorous new life in a version of their stories which remains faithful to the mythic form in which they first appeared yet engages the reader in a startlingly contemporary drama of the passions.
The Return From Troy
Agamemnon sails back to Mycenae, where Clytaemnestra has long nursed a vengeful fury over his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenaia. Meanwhile Menelaus must decide the fate of Helen, over whose incomparable beauty the war was fought.
Odysseus, traumatized by the slaughter his own ingenuity unleashed, no longer believes himself fit to return to his wife and son. Driven both by tempests and by his own torment, he embarks on a voyage which will take him to the margins of the world and deep into the shadows of his own heart before a mysterious sequence of initiations frees him to make the hopeful journey home.
Whitbread Award-winning novelist Lindsay Clarke brings to bear his trademark lyricism, lucidity and mythic power in a novel which offers a unique and tellingly contemporary interpretation of one of the world’s great stories.
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