In The Shape Of A Boar

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2001
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In pre-Homeric times, the Greek heroes united one last time to hunt down the Boar of Kalydon. Three and a half millennia later, the hunt for the Boar of Kalydon is re-enacted, and once again re-told. In the final months of WWII, Greek partisans pursue their quarry, an SS officer, in the same mountains the ancient Boar of Kalydon once roamed. Witness to the hunt is Sol Memel, a young Rumanian-Jewish poet fleeing for his life. Sol has lost his family and abandoned his lover, Ruth. Sol's role in the SS officer's eventual capture and killing inspires him to rewrite the ancient myth as a poem. When Ruth reappears twenty-five years later and proposes a film based on the writing of the poem, the ghosts of Sol's wartime past materialise. And behind them stand the ghosts of ancient Greece, the long-dead heroes who hold the truth behind the story of the original hunt.

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In pre-Homeric times, the Greek heroes united one last time to hunt down the Boar of Kalydon. Three and a half millennia later, the hunt for the Boar of Kalydon is re-enacted, and once again re-told. In the final months of WWII, Greek partisans pursue their quarry, an SS officer, in the same mountains the ancient Boar of Kalydon once roamed. Witness to the hunt is Sol Memel, a young Rumanian-Jewish poet fleeing for his life. Sol has lost his family and abandoned his lover, Ruth. Sol's role in the SS officer's eventual capture and killing inspires him to rewrite the ancient myth as a poem. When Ruth reappears twenty-five years later and proposes a film based on the writing of the poem, the ghosts of Sol's wartime past materialise. And behind them stand the ghosts of ancient Greece, the long-dead heroes who hold the truth behind the story of the original hunt.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 0753812576
ISBN 13: 9780753812570
Book Overview: Received widespread critical acclaim on hardback publication By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Lempriere's Dictionary Lempriere's Dictionary and The Pope's Rhinoceros have been translated into 26 languages Over a million copies of Lempriere's Dictionary and The Pope's Rhinoceros in print worldwide Lawrence Norfolk was among Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2 (Granta 43) 'A wonderful achievement, as intellectually provocative as it is gripping to read, and it confirms Norfolk's reputation not only as one of the most exciting novelists around, but also as a writer unafraid to evolve' Literary Review 'Ambitious, intelligent, innovative, erudite, elegant, witty, lyrical and serious: it is a triumph for Lawrence Norfolk' The Times 'A fiercely brilliant, sustained display of virtuoso writing' Guardian

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Lawrence Norfolk was born in 1963. He won the Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel, Lempriere's Dictionary.

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