

- Greek Mythology, Fiction, History, Fantasy fiction
Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth.
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Epic, grave, open-ended and prestige.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Kate Bernheimer
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 546
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143122425
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