In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia’s Colchis – where Medea flees her home and father with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. Vann’s reimagining of this ancient tale offers a thrilling, realist alternative to the long held notions of Medea as monster or sorceress. We witness with dramatic urgency Medea’s humanity, her Bronze Age roots and position in Greek society, her love affair with Jason, and her tragic demise.
Atmospheric and spellbinding, Bright Air Black is an indispensable, fresh and provocative take on one of our earliest texts and the most intimate and corporal version of Medea’s story ever told.
- ISBN10 0099592266
- ISBN13 9780099592266
- Publish Date 19 October 2017 (first published 7 March 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Windmill Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English