The Song of Achilles, out now!

It's finally here, and we could not be more thrilled.  After what feels like years of anticipation (and was, in fact, at least a year of it in-house), Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles hits shelves today! At this point, I'll do myself more trouble than good to wax ecstatic again, so let's take a look at the completely unbiased raves.  

“You don’t need to be familiar with Homer’s The Iliad (or Brad Pitt’s Troy, for that matter) to find Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles spellbinding....her explorations of ego, grief, and love’s many permutations are both familiar and new....[A] timeless love story.”— O MAGAZINE

“A psychologically astute Iliad prelude featuring the heady, star-crossed adolescence of future heroes Patroclus and Achilles.”— VOGUE

“Masterfully brings to life an imaginative yet informed vision of ancient Greece featuring divinely human gods and larger-than-life mortals. She breaks new ground retelling one of the world’s oldest stories about men in love and war [and] extraordinary women.”— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW), PICK OF THE WEEK

“A masterly vision of the drama, valor, and tragedy of the Trojan War. Readers who loved Mary Renault’s epic novels will be thrilled with Miller’s portrayal of ancient Greece. This reviewer can’t wait to see what she writes next.”— LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)

“A captivating retelling of The Iliad and events leading up to it through the point of view of Patroclus: it’s a hard book to put down, and any classicist will be enthralled by her characterisation of the goddess Thetis, which carries the true savagery and chill of antiquity.”— DONNA TARTT, THE TIMES

“A modern take on The Iliad, full of love and feats of glory and told in an open, lyric, loose-limbed fashion that should appeal to many readers.... Next up from Miller—the story of Circe...historical fiction fans, get in on the ground floor.”— LIBRARY JOURNAL

“Mary Renault lives again! A ravishingly vivid and convincing version of one of the most legendary of love stories.”— EMMA DONOGHUE

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and a startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist. Madeline Miller has given us her own fresh take on the Trojan war and its heroes. The result is a book I could not put down.”— ANN PATCHETT

“Miller somehow (and breathtakingly so) mixes high-action commercial plotting with writing of such beautiful delicacy you sometimes have to stop and stare.”— THE INDEPENDENT

“Miller’s prose is more poetic than almost any translation of Homer… This is a deeply affecting version of the Achilles story: a fully three-dimension man - a son, a father, husband and lover - now exists where a superhero previously stood and fought.”— THE GUARDIAN

Check out my interview with Madeline here, and be sure to catch her while she's on tour!

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