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The Children of Jocasta
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9780063418301
Publisher: Harper
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Reinterprets two of Sophocles' Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful.--The New Yorker
A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfunctional family. Haynes balances a fresh take on the material with a deep love for her sources, wearing her scholarship with grace, and giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.--Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe
The New York Times bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind returns with a powerful feminist mythological retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked.
When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why my siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .
Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.
Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.
With the turn of these two events, a tragedy rooted in Greek myth is set in motion. But not as we've known it.
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