A tour-de-force of imaginative literature -- by the winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Ferro-Grumley Award for Best Gay NovelThree millenia old, the story of the Trojan War is one of the benchmark works of the Western canon. The very definition of the word epic, writers -- ancient and modern -- have used it to explain history, define ...(展开全部)

An Arrow’s Flight is a joyous and eccentric tour-de-force by the author of American Studies and Man About Town. The siege of Troy has dragged on for ten years, with no end in sight, when an oracle supplies the Greeks with the recipe for victory. All they need is Pyrrhus, son of the fallen Achilles. But Pyrrhus has been putting his godlike form to profitable use as a go-go dance...(展开全部)

The award-winning An Arrow's Flight tells the story of the Trojan War and Pyrrhus, the son of the fallen Achilles, now working as a go-go boy and hustler in the big city. Magically blending ancient headlines and modern myth, Merlis creates a fabulous new world where legendary heroes declare their endowments in personal ads and any panhandler may be a divinity in disguise. Comic...(展开全部)