{"product_id":"all-day-permanent-red-the-first-battle-scenes-of-homers-iliad-rewritten-9780374529291","title":"All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSetting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Kill! Kill for me!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetter to die than live without killing!\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho says prayer does no good?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called \"the best translation of Homer since Pope's\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). Here in \u003ci\u003eAll Day Permanent Red \u003c\/i\u003eis doomed Hector, the lion, \"slam-scattering the herd\" at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a \"sky-wide Venetian blind.\" Here is an arrow's tunnel, \"the width of a lipstick,\" through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Logue\u003c\/b\u003e is a screenwriter, a film actor, and the author of several books of poems. He lives in London, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323798950162,"sku":"9780374529291","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_166243ea-2555-499a-a1c8-2cc4636af657.jpg?v=1727661410","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-day-permanent-red-the-first-battle-scenes-of-homers-iliad-rewritten-9780374529291","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}