Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
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    Feb-2012 (Hardcover)
    Mar-2013 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    177
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Booker Prize winner Dame Antonia Byatt breathes life into the Ragnorak myth, the story of the end of the gods in Norse mythology.

Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so AS Byatt now reinvents it in all its intensity and glory. As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods - a book of ancient Norse myths - and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.

War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that AS Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark.
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    •  
    • Apr-2013
    • Grove Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0802120849
    • ISBN13: 9780802120847
    •  
    • Sep-2011
    • Knopf (Canada)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0676978509
    • ISBN13: 9780676978506
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Grove Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0802129927
    • ISBN13: 9780802129925
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Canongate U.S.
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0802194877
    • ISBN13: 9780802194879
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Canongate Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 184767965X
    • ISBN13: 9781847679659
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Knopf (Canada)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307401847
    • ISBN13: 9780307401847
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Grove Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1455870587
    • ISBN13: 9781455870585
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1455852406
    • ISBN13: 9781455852406
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1455852422
    • ISBN13: 9781455852420
    •  
    • Mar-2012
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1455852449
    • ISBN13: 9781455852444
    •  
    • Oct-2011
    • ISIS Large Print Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0753188848
    • ISBN13: 9780753188842
    • Large Print
    •  
    • Oct-2012
    • ISIS Large Print Books
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0753188856
    • ISBN13: 9780753188859
    • Large Print



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