The Goddess Letters:The Myth of Demeter & Persephone Retold- Signed

Carol Orlock

ISBN 10: 0312006012 / ISBN 13: 9780312006013

Published by St. Martin's Press, NY, 1987

About this Item

St. Martin's Press, NY, 1987, 220 pgs. First/First edition in Very Good+/Very Good- condition, with light shelf/edgewear, and a few bumps to boards, and shelf/edgewear,with heavy wear at panel folds. Otherwise tight, square, clean, and unclipped (please review photos). The Author has Signed on title pg. Called a "richly imagined novel.allows us to see inside goddesses'(Demeter, Persephone) minds, revealing a more subtle feminism.". All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Black boards with gold lettering. Seller Inventory # 2021097

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Goddess Letters:The Myth of Demeter & ...

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, NY

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First/First.

About this title

Synopsis:

A novel in the form of letters between the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone depicts their lives

From Publishers Weekly:

This retelling of the myth of Demeter, goddess of fertility, and her daughter Persephone, in whose presence flowers bloom, begins with Persephone's rape and abduction to the Underworld by Lord Hades. In alternating chapters Demeter and Persephone mourn their separation, establishing themselves as characters with both the powers of Olympus and recognizably human emotions. Demeter is expansive, earthy and sensual, Persephone adolescently self-centered and Hades (whom she calls Dis) rigidly proud of his ghostly cold domain where, he believes, Justice rules. Combining well-known elements of Greek mythology with a wide-ranging view of religion and philosophy, Orlock (whose work has appeared in Ms. and Fiction West moves from Persephone's rape, which marks the end of matriarchal authority, to Demeter's final withdrawal 2000 years later. While distinguished by imaginative and thought-provoking ideas, the novel exhibits its greatest strength in its lyric, intensely emotional examination of a mother-daughter relationship and its evocation of the processes of change and loss.
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