The Song of Achilles Classics Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds

Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond

framed in vital and brilliant prose: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life’ Philip Hoare

Using the theories of Alfred Adler

It is about power—which groups have it and which do not

The Song of Achilles Classics Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfoldsA New York Times Bestseller At once a scholars homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art. A book I could not put down. Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines