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02279aam a22003858i 4500 001 8E54022ABB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240125010040 008 230615s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023024702 020 $a 1250893690 020 $a 9781250893697 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20230929 100 1 $a Lennon, Ferdia, $e author. 245 10 $a Glorious exploits : $b a novel / $c Ferdia Lennon. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2403 264 1 $a New York : $b Henry Holt and Company, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "Set in Syracuse, Sicily, during the Peloponnesian War but told in contemporary Irish dialect, Glorious Exploits follows Lampo and Gelon, best friends since childhood. Thrilled to have survived the Athenians' recent invasion and as shocked by the Syracusan victory as everyone else, these unemployed potters are in a mood to celebrate. Of course, they hate the Athenians. Still, that doesn't mean you can't love the theatre of their great playwright Euripides, does it? Realizing that if the Athenians are as doomed as everyone says, this might be their last chance to hear Euripides's poetry, they go down to the quarry where the Athenian prisoners are being held and offer extra rations to any prisoner who can recite his work, a decision that sets into motion anextraordinary series of events. A novel that asks big questions about war and its aftermath, Glorious Exploits is a story as hopeful and playful as it is tragic"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 00 $a Euripides $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Greece $x History $y Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Syracuse (Italy) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Lennon, Ferdia. $t Glorious exploits $b First edition. $d New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024 $z 9781250893703 $w (DLC) 2023024703 941 $a 5 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20240507010352.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012917.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012826.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240402012124.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012320.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E54022ABB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search