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About Joan London
See more books from this AuthorEdith, more conventionally, fell in love with a bad man: Armenian archaeologist Aram Sinanien, a friend of Edith’s cousin Leopold, who visited the Clarks on his return from a dig in 1937.
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Oct 08 2007 | Read Full Review of Gilgamesh: A NovelThe Play of Gilgamesh by Edwin Morgan 100pp, Carcanet, £9.95 The poet Edwin Morgan is a miraculous kind of writer in a personality-crazed age.
Jan 14 2006 | Read Full Review of Gilgamesh: A NovelSurpassing all kings, powerful and tall beyond all others, violent, splendid, a wild bull of a man, unvanquished leader, hero in the front lines, beloved by his soldiers - fortress they called him, protector of the people , raging flood that destroys all defences - two-thirds divine an...
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Jul 09 2006 | Read Full Review of Gilgamesh: A NovelGilgamesh by Joan London 272pp, Atlantic, £12.99 The Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest known poem, is about a Sumerian king who has everything a man could want bar immortality.
Nov 01 2003 | Read Full Review of Gilgamesh: A NovelAnd when their daughter Edith is seduced by the strange Aram (the driver for her mother's British friend), gives birth to baby Jim and a few months later sets off to seek the boy's elusive father in his remote country, one has entered the realm of the legendary and epic journey conjured by the bo...
| Read Full Review of Gilgamesh: A NovelWhen he grows up, Jack becomes a figure like Edith, journeying far, with the assistance of Leopold, to search out the legacy of Aram.
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of Gilgamesh: A NovelDuring a heated moment, a man slaps a three year old boy who is not his son, nor a relation of his.
Aug 22 2011 | Read Full Review of Gilgamesh: A NovelSince much of Mesopotamian civilisation, especially writing, originated in the south – the medium for writing, clay tablets impressed with a reed, is well-suited to a riverine culture – the prestige of Sumerian meant that it occupied a place in the national curriculum long after it had become ext...
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