Mestra a short story
"A brilliant new short story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Madeline Miller--her first work of fiction since the publication of Circe--that vibrantly reimagines the powerful and forgotten myth of Mestra. A cursed father, a gifted daughter. Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "A brilliant new short story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Madeline Miller--her first work of fiction since the publication of Circe--that vibrantly reimagines the powerful and forgotten myth of Mestra. A cursed father, a gifted daughter. Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is gifted a unique ability by Poseidon: metamorphosis into any being she can imagine. Her father, on the other hand, is cursed. As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he is in possession of an unnatural, insatiable hunger. Devoted Mestra suggests using her new gift to help her father. But if his hunger is bottomless, how much will he take from her? Soon she must decide: will she keep helping her father survive, or finally break free? A jewel-like tale of human fallibility, Mestra confirms Madeline Miller as our high priestess of mythology"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 65 pages ; 16 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780063566286 0063566281 |
| Author Notes: | Madeline Miller is a novelist who was born in 1978 in Boston. She earned her Bachelor's and Masters Degrees in Classics from Brown University. She soon began teaching Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students. She also took classes at the University of Chicago's Committee on Socila Thought and at the Yale School of Drama. Her debut novel,The Song of Achilles, was released in 2011. It won the 17th annual Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2013 Chautauqua Prize. Her next title, Circe, made the bestseller list in 2018. (Bowker Author Biography) |
