- Published: 15 July 2012
- ISBN: 9781845951689
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $49.99
Orpheus
The Song of Life
- Published: 15 July 2012
- ISBN: 9781845951689
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $49.99
Orpheus: The Song of Life is a book of wonders, learned, playful and passionate...For all her studies, her wide reading, her historical dilligence, Wroe's method is instinctive, as she searches for inspirations and connections across the millennia
John Banville, Guardian
a dense, vigorous portrait
Maggie Fergusson, Intelligent Life
This insightful and visionary study, treading a perfect line between imagination and scholarship, is as readable and necessary as a fine novel. Ted Hughes, another mythographer, would have loved it
Independent
Ann Wroe has an acute eye for pastoral detail...and takes a novelist's care in exploring character and evoking atmosphere... [Orpheus] will leave you dancing
New Statesman
This is a most remarkable book... most rewarding... [a book] that will surely enhance Ann Wroe's already considerable reputation
Irish Times
Curious... there are moments of sublime writing
Scotland on Sunday
strange, original
Sunday Times
This one really is a song ... It evokes, but it also embodies, its subject
Brian Morton, Tablet
Manages, in prose both rhapsodic and precise, to convey the allure of the legendary bard from ancient Greece to modern times. This myth has flowered into truth
Boyd Tonkin, Independent, Books of the Year