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Original Title:	Lavinia
ISBN:	0151014248 (ISBN13: 9780151014248)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2009), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2010), James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2008)

Lavinia

Ursula K. Le Guin

Hardcover | Pages: 279 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 8319 Users | 1278 Reviews

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Title	:	Lavinia
Author	:	Ursula K. Le Guin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 279 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2008 by Harcourt, Inc.
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction. Mythology

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In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice. In The Aeneid, Virgil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner—that she will be the cause of a bitter war—and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life. Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.

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Amazing! Le Guin writes so beautifully.

In her novel Lavinia, Ursula Le Guin takes the character of Lavinia who gets little more than a tertiary mention in Virgils The Aeneid, and provides her with voice, character, and background. The novel is in the first person point of view with Lavinia speaking directly to the reader. She describes her childhood, upbringing, meeting with and subsequent marriage to Aeneas, the birth of their son, Aeneas death, and her sons rise to power. Lavinia is portrayed as a strong woman determined to fulfill

Le Guin's New Wave effort to break every rule of storytelling (interesting characters, a plot that moves, confict, etc.) worked, in that now I know why books need those things. This was a very boring story.

I thought this book was boring. There, I said it. Even though it had passion, war, bloodshed, royal intrigue, suicide, I found it boring and it was difficult for me to convince myself to continue reading it. I am a classic history buff, which this novel has loads of, but it still couldn't grip my interest. The tone of the book was quiet and ghostly, very in the past so I never felt anything immediate. It was a story told by someone who remembered facts, places, names, etc. and spoke of emotion,

In her novel Lavinia, Ursula Le Guin takes the character of Lavinia who gets little more than a tertiary mention in Virgils The Aeneid, and provides her with voice, character, and background. The novel is in the first person point of view with Lavinia speaking directly to the reader. She describes her childhood, upbringing, meeting with and subsequent marriage to Aeneas, the birth of their son, Aeneas death, and her sons rise to power. Lavinia is portrayed as a strong woman determined to fulfill

Ursula K. Le Guin has a true gift for evoking the mysterious echoes of a far distant mythic past. I first noticed this in her Earthsea cycle: the darkness of both temple and tomb, a world trembling with unrealized mysteries, attempts to harness powers that can never be fully mastered. While Lavinia departs from the traditional fantasy genre in that it is a retelling of The Aeneid, it has lost none of the atmospheric richness that make Ms. Le Guins books so magical.The tale is told from the

Don't go reading Le Guin expecting Koontz. Lavinia's character was handled with grace and imagination. But there was very little plot. I guess I should say, I kept waiting for the climax, and it never happened. While discussing this with my husband, he said, "Isn't that just like life? You think it's going somewhere, then it's just over." As depressing as that sounds, it's still a good book. None of the Margaret Atwood or Marion Zimmer Bradley anachronistic feminism here. Lavinia was refreshing