- american fiction, historical fiction, Fiction, History
From back cover: From its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the center of an extensive, powerful empire, ... Saylor's ... novel brings to vivid life the most famous city in the ancient world. Told through the tragedies and triumphs of the descendants of two families, Roma shows the events, the people, and the turning points in history that have come to symbolize ancient Rome in the modern imagination.
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Earnest, epic, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Steven Saylor
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Brand: St. Martin's Press, La Esfera de los Libros, St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781849016049
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