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Karen Essex
Dear Librarian, Dear Librarian, My novels are about women and power. Throughout every historical era, dynamic women have influenced world events but history has rarely recorded their accomplishments. In fact, when my daughter was in grade school, she and her friends could not name any powerful women except...Madonna! I'm sure that as a librarian, you find that as alarming as I did. At that point, I made it my goal to revive the stories of extraordinary women, highlighting the ways in which they transformed the times in which they lived and the world beyond. My new novel, STEALING ATHENA, chronicles the amazing journey of the Elgin Marbles—those controversial treasures taken from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin and placed in the British Museum—through the dual narratives of Mary Nisbet, Elgin's wife, a dazzling Scottish heiress, and Aspasia, philosopher and mistress of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens. In those heady days, Aspasia witnessed the construction of the Parthenon as she stood fearlessly with Pericles at the center of Athens' power circle. Some 2300 years later, Lady Elgin used her money, her intelligence, and her beauty to negotiate with the fearsome rulers of the Ottoman Empire and the most commanding men in His Majesty's realm to help Elgin realize his ambition of claiming the Marbles for England. Anyone interested in an intimate look at women's lives in these two fascinating periods will enjoy STEALING ATHENA. For more information on STEALING ATHENA, please visit my website, www.karenessex.com and please encourage your library patrons to take advantage of the additional research and information I have provided. Thank you for championing reading and literacy in your community. With warm regards, Karen Essex "More about money than sex, and more about art than either, Essex's latest...shines light on the women who inspired and protected some of the greatest art ever created, and the men who exploited them." —Publishers Weekly
Stealing Athena / Karen Essex / Doubleday / Hardcover; 464 Pages
Price: $22.95 / ISBN: 978-0385519717 / Published: June, 2008 Karen Essex is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |