TY  - BOOK
AU  - Toibin,Colm
TI  - House of names
SN  - 9781760551421
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Sydney, New South Wales
PB  - Pan Macmillan Australia
KW  - Clytemnestra,
KW  - Agamemnon,
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - Mythology, Greek
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Betrayal
KW  - Greek mythology
KW  - Murder
KW  - Families
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "From the thrilling imagination of bestselling award-winning Colm Tóibín comes this ambitions violent and moden retelling of one of our oldest and most enduring stories"--Back cover
N2  - Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, the murderess Clytemnestra tells of the deception of Agamemnon, how he sacrificed her eldest daughter - her beloved Iphigenia - to the Trojan campaign; how Clytemnestra used what power she had, seducing the prisoner Aegisthus, turning the government against its lord; plotting the many long years until her beacon fires announce the king's return. Electra, daughter of a murdered father, loyal subject of the rightful king, watches Clytemnestra and her lover with cold anger and slow-burning cunning. She watches, as they walk the gardens and corridors of the house of Atreus. She waits for the traitors to become complacent, to believe they are finally safe; she waits for her exiled brother, Orestes, for the boy to become a warrior, for fate to follow him home. She watches and she waits, until her spies announce her brother's return
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