Previous SFF Author: M.A.R. Barker
Pat Barker is the author of Union Street, Blow Your House Down, The Century’s Daughter, The Man Who Wasn’t There, the REGENERATION trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road), Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, and the LIFE CLASS trilogy (Life Class, Toby’s Room, and Noonday). She lives in Durham, England.
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The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Toward the end of Pat Barker’s newest novel, her main character Briseis thinks to herself:
“Yes, the death of young men in battle is a tragedy … worthy of any number of laments — but theirs is not the worst fate. I looked at Andromache, who’d have to live the rest of her amputated life as a slave, and I thought: We need a new song.”
The eloquently powerful The Silence of the Girls (2018) is Barker’s attempt to create just that,
Bill Capossere and Ray McKenzie´s rating: 4.5 | Pat Barker | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
Amongst the flood of Greek myth retellings over the past number few years, three authors have stood out to me. Two are Madeline Miller and Claire North, the first for her fantastic Circe (not to mention the brilliant The Song of Achilles from a decade earlier) and the second for her excellent and just-concluded SONGS OF PENELOPE trilogy. The third is Pat Barker and her WOMEN OF TROY series,
Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Pat Barker | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Previous SFF Author: M.A.R. Barker
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…
this sounds like a fun one