Mary Renault

The Persian Boy

A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic

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Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of Mary Renault's masterpiece: a groundbreaking queer classic and 'one of the greatest historical novels ever written' (Sarah Waters). Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes and Pat Barker.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
• ISBN-13: 9780349018614
• ISBN-10: 0349018618
• Artikelnr.: 70439037

Autorenporträt

Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love , was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.