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    Last of the Amazons: A Novel

    By Steven Pressfield

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    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steven Pressfield's The Profession.

    The author of the international bestsellers Gates of Fire and Tides of War delivers his most gripping and imaginative novel of the ancient world–a stunning epic of love and war that breathes life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons.

    Steven Pressfield has gained a passionate worldwide following for his magnificent novels of ancient Greece, Gates of Fire and Tides of War. In Last of the Amazons, Pressfield has surpassed himself, re-creating a vanished world in a brilliant novel that will delight his loyal readers and bring legions more to his singular and powerful restoration of the past.

    In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, King of Athens (an actual historical figure), set sail on a journey that brought him into the land of tal Kyrte, the “free people,” a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called “Amazons.” The Amazons, bound to each other as lovers as well as fighters, distrusted the Greeks, with their boastful talk of “civilization.” So when the great war queen Antiope fell in love with Theseus and fled with the Greeks, the mighty Amazon nation rose up in rage.

    Last of the Amazons is not merely a masterful tale of war and revenge. Pressfield has created a cast of extraordinarily vivid characters, from the unforgettable Selene, whose surrender to the Greeks does nothing to tame her; to her lover, Damon, an Athenian warrior who grows to cherish the wild Amazon ways; to the narrator, Bones, a young girl from a noble family who was nursed by Selene from birth and secretly taught the Amazon way; to the great Theseus, the tragic king; and to Antiope, the noble queen who betrayed tal Kyrte for the love of Theseus.

    With astounding immediacy and extraordinary attention to military detail, Pressfield transports readers into the heat and terror of war. Equally impressive is his creation of the Amazon nation, its people, its rituals and myths, its greatness and savagery. Last of the Amazons is thrilling on every page, an epic tale of the clash between wildness and civilization, patriotism and love, man and woman.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJul 1, 2003
    ISBN9780553897715
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    Steven Pressfield

    Steven Pressfield has been an enthusiastic golfer since the age of ten. He is the author of the novel Gates of Fire and a well-known screenwriter whose screenplays include "Above the Law" and "Freejack." He lives in the Los Angeles area.

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    • 3/5
      My disclaimer. I am a fan of Steven Pressfield. On the strength of Gates of Fire and Virtues of War I decided to read the Last of the Amazons. I wanted to like this book in an intense way. The framework of the story is superb. The idea of the story is superb. The execution is not. In short. The story focuses on the pursuit of An amazon woman across the classical Greek landscape. Sounds great? Yeah a really cool concept. The positives of the story. Incredible combat scenes and very good dialogue. Pressfield does a bang up good job of giving you a beautiful pallet of colors and descriptions of the classical Greek ideal. The images fly off the page. By the time you are done reading this book you will have blood splattered across your brow and will be checking your appendages to ensure they are still attached. The negatives of the story. The pacing is horrible and the author gets lost and loses us in his timeline. What we have is a person telling a story who is telling a story about a person telling a story that is remembering a story that someone told them about someone else telling a story. Another author, Elizabeth Kostova, is notorious for this. When someone is recalling something that happened in such a way that the tone never shifts and the recall of memory takes over and smothers the initial reason for recalling the memory. Is this a weakness in writing. Not necessarily. The Last of the Amazons should have been a little more linear and about 500 pages longer. Wallace Breem’s “Eagle in the Snow” is a good example of this. The Last of the Amazons is a good book with a good premise, but a crack running right through the middle of the story. There are way too many characters fighting for space in the short amount of time it takes to read. It could have been epic.
    • 3/5
      My disclaimer. I am a fan of Steven Pressfield. On the strength of Gates of Fire and Virtues of War I decided to read the Last of the Amazons. I wanted to like this book in an intense way. The framework of the story is superb. The idea of the story is superb. The execution is not. In short. The story focuses on the pursuit of An amazon woman across the classical Greek landscape. Sounds great? Yeah a really cool concept. The positives of the story. Incredible combat scenes and very good dialogue. Pressfield does a bang up good job of giving you a beautiful pallet of colors and descriptions of the classical Greek ideal. The images fly off the page. By the time you are done reading this book you will have blood splattered across your brow and will be checking your appendages to ensure they are still attached. The negatives of the story. The pacing is horrible and the author gets lost and loses us in his timeline. What we have is a person telling a story who is telling a story about a person telling a story that is remembering a story that someone told them about someone else telling a story. Another author, Elizabeth Kostova, is notorious for this. When someone is recalling something that happened in such a way that the tone never shifts and the recall of memory takes over and smothers the initial reason for recalling the memory. Is this a weakness in writing. Not necessarily. The Last of the Amazons should have been a little more linear and about 500 pages longer. Wallace Breem’s “Eagle in the Snow” is a good example of this. The Last of the Amazons is a good book with a good premise, but a crack running right through the middle of the story. There are way too many characters fighting for space in the short amount of time it takes to read. It could have been epic.
    • 5/5
      The first of Steven Pressfield's books I have read.I shall certainly work my way through the others. I am doing a Masters in Classical Studies and I cannot fault the accuracy and detail pertaining not just to the Amazons but also to everyday life and habits in Classical Greece. Pressfield has certainly done his homework. The descriptive work is excellent - enough detail to make you believe you are there. Lots of twists and turn - right up to the end. A thoroughly remarkable read - recommended.
    • 2/5
      His usual detail -- and gore -- but the ending cannot be in doubt from the first page.
    • 3/5
      Though not quite as engaging as Gates of Fire, Pressfield's story of the legendary Amazons and Athenians in the time of Theseus is another page turner.
    • 4/5
      Very cool battle scenes and amazon traditions. A bit repetitive and not much character development.