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Twenty years after the fall of Troy, an aged Amazon retells the stories of her people to her granddaughter, including versions of the myths of Thetis, Medusa, and Hippolyta
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Once upon a time Amazons lived on the Black Sea coast....Imagine then a mountain cave in Thrace, thirty-five years after Troy's last ember has grown cold. Two old women, an Amazon and a Trojan slave, fuel the hearthfire with their stories. One speaks, one sings, and the winter air is peopled with women. A child stands at the cave wall drawing in charcoal...or sits by the fire with a clay tablet and kingfisher's wingfeather.Amazon Story Bones is a sumptuous and gratifying feast of story and song, of image and lyric of history and invention. Author Ellen Frye begins with the premise: What if the Amazons told their own stories? The result is a collection of familiar Greek myths retold from an Amazon perspective.
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