Sword at Sunset
A Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology book. It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured. Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset //
This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century. Artos here comes alive: bold and forceful in battle, warm and generous in friendship, tough in politics, shrewd in the strategy of war-and tender and tragically tormented in love. Out of the interweaving of ancient legend, fresh research, soaring imagination, and hypnotic narrative skill comes a novel that has richly earned its reputation as a classic.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 495 pages
- ISBN: 9780340021484 / 340021489
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It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured. Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset //
If I had read this book as a child, it would have fundamentally changed my life in the way The Dark is Rising did. I'm not sure I can do credit to "Sword at Sunset." Sutcliff wrote this fundamentally realist version of the Arthur mythos in the fifties, and the degree to which it has apparently influenced all realist and semi-realist... I enjoyed this very much, despite it being a story that I knew and knew well how it ends. After all, how many books have been written about King Arthur?! The tactical skill and maneuvers of the battles were my favourite. They were very satisfying, like the strategy in the battles in Ender's Game. Often when you read about large armies... This was a bit of a slog, and a book I have mixed feelings about.Sutcliff writes beautifully and her descriptions of the natural world are poetic and lyrical - she has a brilliant way with metaphors and imagery, but the endless descriptions of battles and warfare sent me to sleep. I struggled through some chapters and ploughed through...
