Description: "[A]n engaging, subversive reimagining of the tale of the eponymous Greek heroine who is upheld as a shining example of the dutiful wife for her selfless sacrifice. Katharine Buetner's Alcestis is a far more willful heroine, and her encounters with the gods of the underworld resonate with a genuine sense of the numinous."-Jacqueline Carey, Namaah's Kiss and Kushiel's Dart "Beutner renders her multilayered heroine with beauty and delicacy, and concerns herself with no less than the intricacies of the soul."- Publishers Weekly "Everyday life in the ancient world, a no-escape-clause afterlife in the underworld, vulnerable mortals, and passionate and tormented gods-all are imagined with intense actuality in a novel that is as intoxicating and hypnotic as the sacred smoke inhaled by the oracles."-Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck "Beutner spices up this classic tale with a decidedly Sapphic flavor."- Booklist

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