Bookverdict.com

In this modern feminist retelling of Ovid's Metamorphoses, itself a Latin retelling of ancient Greek myths, MacLaughlin (Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter) relies on Allen Mandelbaum's 1993 English translation for source material. If any canonical tales cry out to be told from a woman's perspective, it is certainly these myths, many of which revolve around rape or attempted rape. Several seem to be set in modern times, with references to the minutiae...Log In or Sign Up to Read More