Lovers' Legends Unbound
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0971468613 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
FIC010000; HIS002010; REL072000. The CD is elegantly packaged in a hardbound book with many color illustrations. Adapted from Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths, Winner of ForeWord Magazine 2003 Book Of The Year Award (Silver, Gay & Lesbian); Finalist in 2003 Lambda Awards (Spirituality, and Children/Young Adults), and in Benjamin Franklin Awards (Gay & Lesbian). Book club rights optioned by Bookspan. Greek myths in spoken and written form bring to life stories suppressed since antiquity, revealing a nuanced morality integrating spirituality and male love
--Sir Derek JacobiI am impressed. Bullough, Author and sex historianNow these classic tales are brought to voice. --The Guide Magazine, Dec 2003 . A truly fine work. It is a work of great devotion, and scholarly as well. A delight to the ear, an excitement to the mind, and a solace to the heart. --Vern L. Calimach renders the spirit of the myths in words fresh and unfusty
Where were these stories when I was in junior high? A Customer This is a well-put-together package, a CD and a booklet with all the Greek myths they never told us about when we were young. Frankly, I could have used them, back in those days before Stonewall. But better late than never.First, the CD. This is not a narration, it is more like performance art, and the tone and tempo of the stories evolves and progresses from first to last. It is obvious that a lot of work went into restoring these stories, and Calimach (the mythographer) has made some interesting and thought-pr. A Customer said Throw the book away and listen to the CD!. Drama at its best is mind-altering, and this stuff will have you reeling. This is gut-wrenching, gripping Greek tragedy, undiluted and not polite. But oh-so-true, and ever so cleansing, down to the core. Listen to it again and again, but not all at once, it is too condensed and too powerful. Kudos to the director for taking these stories in all their intensity and instead of narrating the action, acting the underlying human dilemmas, which know no time or country. And Timothy Carter's acting is superb through th