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rhetoretician

Like Mayflies in the Stream

Sep 29, 2009 21:02

Hooray! Shauna Roberts's new novel, Like Mayflies in the Stream, has just become available for pre-order on Amazon.

The first of the Clarion 2009 graduates to publish a novel has done herself proud. I've read it. I love it. Go out and get it.

Shauna's novel is part of a Hadley Rille Books series of "archeologically-accurate novels about the daily ( Read more... )

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girlspell September 30 2009, 01:22:56 UTC

That is fantastic news! Terrific things happen to Clarion grads, don't you think? I hope someday we'll be seeing another grad with a book out. I'm really excited about that!

I haven't read the book yet, but I'm going to check the public library to see if they purchased it yet.

rhetoretician October 4 2009, 18:17:12 UTC

Thanks, Rachel!

madderbrad September 30 2009, 01:23:47 UTC

*adds 'Like Mayflies in the Stream' to the 'must read one day' file*

Thanks for the recommendation!!

I think I read a comic book adaptation of the Gilgamesh epic a while ago, so maybe I can say I've perused a 'summary form' of it as well!? ;-)

rhetoretician October 4 2009, 18:17:31 UTC

Excellent.

davidkudler September 30 2009, 16:29:00 UTC

So cool! Good for her! I'm sure your Clarion class will be well represented in print soon... starting with you. ;-)

I read Gilgamesh again as I was working on The Hero, and found myself struck yet again by a) how boring epic heroes usually are, Odysseus notwithstanding (pages and pages of listing their accomplishments) and b) how ridiculous the portrayal of the women usually is. Shamat is such a bizarre plot-device of a character (like Lavinia in The Aeneid); I love the idea of making her the central character and bringing the world of the story and of the time to life through her eyes.

And of course, I-like you-love the R&G aspect of the whole thing. (Did you know that I played Hamlet in R&G in college? I got to stand upstage and work on my audition monologues a lot.)

Hmm. For a few years I've been kicking the idea of doing a rewrite of Ovid's Metamorphoses as a kind of YA metaphor for young adulthood. Maybe I'll have to dust that off again. ;-)

rhetoretician October 4 2009, 18:19:46 UTC

Thanks for the vote of confidence, David.

I think there's really a lot of possibility in the "flip side" of great tales. Greg Maguire has sort of cornered that market for this decade, but what the heck...

Definitely dust off your Ovid.