{"product_id":"all-day-permanent-red-christopher-logue-9780374529291","title":"All Day Permanent Red","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSetting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKill  Kill for me \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetter to die than live without killing \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho says prayer does no good?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called the best translation of Homer since Pope's (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). Here in \u003ci\u003eAll Day Permanent Red \u003c\/i\u003eis doomed Hector, the lion, slam-scattering the herd at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a sky-wide Venetian blind. Here is an arrow's tunnel, the width of a lipstick, through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Logue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374529299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374529291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.56w x 0.20d","brand":"Christopher Logue","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990163325183,"sku":"9780374529291","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f75249c-c867-4409-b917-a91287dc96f5.jpg?v=1683303350","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-day-permanent-red-christopher-logue-9780374529291","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}