The Cure at Troy, 9780571327652
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Wounded hero’s bow holds Troy’s fate: Hope and history may rhyme.

The Cure at Troy

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  • Paperback

    88 pages

  • Release Date

    23 January 2018

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Summary

The Cure at Troy: A Timeless Tale of Integrity and Expediency

Seamus Heaney’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Philoctetes recounts the story of a wounded hero, abandoned on an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the war reaches its peak, the Greeks discover they cannot triumph without Philoctetes’s legendary bow and return to seek his aid.

The Cure at Troy vividly portrays the clash between upholding personal values and the demands of political prag…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780571327652
ISBN-10:0571327656
Author:Seamus Heaney
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Imprint:Faber & Faber
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:88
Release Date:23 January 2018
Weight:125g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 7mm
Series:Faber Drama
About The Author

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O’Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013.

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