Rosemary Sutcliff

Sword at Sunset

April 9, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Sword at Sunset (US paperback)Eric Eller describes himself as a ‘recovering chemical engineer’. Of Sword at Sunset he writes:”… Rosemary Sutcliff’s Sword at Sunset stands out for its raw emotion and storyline stripped down to the essentials … This novel makes other versions, no matter how much fantasy and magic are injected, pallid by comparison. Other authors have recreated a gritty, ‘realistic’ Arthur since Sutcliff introduced the idea more than forty years ago, but this first attempt at that take on the Arthurian legend still stands out as the best”.

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  • kerrdelune // March 12, 2009 at 10:41 pm | Reply

    A lovely lovely book – I had it in hardcover and noticed a short time ago that my copy has gone missing. I am (of course) going to locate another HC copy somewhere as my library is not complete without the book.

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