04 December 2009

Fire From Heaven the first sentence

The child was wakened by the knotting of the snake's coils about his waist.

5 comments:

  1. A great opening line, but I've always thought it odd that after putting the snake imagery up front, it doesn't recur throughout the trilogy.

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  2. I don't think it was really written as a trilogy, was it?

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  3. I've always assumed Fire From Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games were intended as a trilogy. I could of course be wrong.

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  4. From David Sweetman's Mary Renault: A Biography

    "But, when I interviewed her, she insisted that, as with The King Must Die, there had been no thought of a sequel, let alone two. Fire from Heaven was meant to stand on its own as a book about joyful youth casting aside the old order and challenging the world with its own romantic vision."

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