Gilgamesh
by Hines, Derrek
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1400077338
- ISBN 13
- 9781400077335
- Seller
-
Fairfax Station, Virginia, United States
766 Copies Available from This Seller
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world's oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast friends, they defy the gods in a series of outsized adventures that brings Gilgamesh face to face with both loss and death itself. Hines energizes this timeless tale with vivid and electrifyingly modern images, from the goddess Ishtar cracking the sound barrier, to a battlefield nightmare of spectral snipers and exploding hand grenades, to the CAT-scan image of a dying friend. The themes of love and friendship, grief, despair, and hope had their first great expression in this story, and this dazzling new interpretation brings us into its thrall again.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Mediaoutletdeal1 (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1400077338_new
- Title
- Gilgamesh
- Author
- Hines, Derrek
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 766
- ISBN 10
- 1400077338
- ISBN 13
- 9781400077335
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 2004-10-19
Terms of Sale
Mediaoutletdeal1
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...