From Publishers Weekly
This muddled, modernized take on the Oresteia casts Agamemnon as a returning WW II vet ambushed by his murderous wife (Clytemn-)Esther and her lover.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The bones of the story are familiar: a war hero returns after years away to find himself unwelcome. In his absence his wife has taken a lover, and together wife and lover conspire in his murder. The son, urged on by the murdered hero's furious daughter, kills his father's killers. It is the Oresteia, but updated and translated into life in small-town America at the close of World War II. Agamemnon becomes Augie Mencken, a failure whose heroism is itself an elaborate hoax; Clytemnestra becomes Esther, who takes as her lover Augie's more successful cousin E.G.; Electra become Ellie; and Orestes, the title's Orrie. The novel is amusing, but little else, and unfortunately it provides no new turns on either its mythic bones or its updated setting. For collections of popular literature.
- Kevin Ray, Washington Univ. Lib., St. LouisCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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