Counting the Stars - Couverture rigide

Dunmore, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670914541 ISBN 13 : 9780670914548

Editeur : Fig Tree, 2008

Synopsis

In the heat of Rome’s long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret.

Living at the heart of sophisticated, brittle and brutal Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionate poems. He is jealous of her husband, of her maid, even of her pet sparrow. And Clodia? Catullus is ‘her dear poet’, but possibly not her only interest…

Their Rome is a city of extremes. Tenants are packed into ramshackle apartment blocks while palatial villas house the magnificence of the families who control Rome. Armed street gangs clash in struggles for political power. Slaves are the eyes and ears of everything that goes on, while civilization and violence are equals, murder is the easy option and poison the weapon of choice.

Catallus’ relationship with Clodia is one of the most intense, passionate, tormented and candid in history. In love and in hate, their story exposes the beauty and terrors of Roman life in the late Republic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Helen Dunmore has published ten novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphans; and Counting the Stars. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fig Tree
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670914541
• ISBN 13: 9780670914548
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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