Alcestis by Katharine Beutner

304 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced
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In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal wife; she loved her husband so much that she died and went to the underworld in his place. In this vividly-imagined debut, Katharine Beutner gives voice to the woman behind the ideal and reveals the pa...

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