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Mary Renault (Author)
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  • Paperback: 284 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New Ed edition (6 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099463490
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099463498
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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As "Funeral Games" opens, Alexander the Great lies dying. Around his body gather the generals, the provincial satraps and the royal wives, already competing for the prizes of power and land. Only Bagaos, the Persian boy mourning in the shadows wants nothing. Tracing the events of the fifteen years following Alexander's death, "Funeral Games" sees his almighty empire disintergrate, and brings Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy to a dramatic close.

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Mary Renault was educated at Clifton High School, Bristol and St Hugh's College, Oxford. Having completed nursing training in 1937 she wrote her first novel Promise of Love: her next three novels were written during off-time duty whilst serving in the war. In 1948 she went to live in South Africa but travelled widely. It was her trip to Greece and her visits to Corinth, Samos, Crete, Delos, Aegina and other islands, as well as to Athens, Sounion and Marathon, that resulted in her brilliant historical reconstructions of Ancient Greece. Mary Renault died in 1983.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and tragic ending to a fabulous trilogy, 25 May 2006
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This is the third book of Renault's Alexander Trilogy which started with Fire from Heaven and continued with The Persian Boy. It's a difficult book to read as the absence of Alexander, dead in Babylon, is so painful to contemplate, but that's a mark of how involving and real the books are: we really care that this man is dead, and like some of the characters at least, we too are disorientated and don't know how the world is going to continue without him.
It does, of course. But not as it once was: the death of Alexander forces the hands of everyone ever involved with him and the political machinations of his family, friends, enemies and fellow commanders is what this book focuses on. Political, complex and intricate, it yet subtly shows the strength and force of personality of Alexander himself in the very fact of his absence which haunts this book to the end.
A far cry from Manfredi and Pressfield, this is both steeped in an understanding of the ancient sources and yet is an imaginative recreation of a vanished world that belongs uniquely to Renault.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, 5 Jun 2007
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The book can become very complex and broken up, as I imagine the events afer Alexander's death to be. More of a history book than a novel but interesting and even exciting at the same time this book is essential reading to tie up the loose ends of the first two enstallments of this brillient trilogy.
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4.0 out of 5 stars This book misses Alexander's presence, but that's no fault of the author's..., 27 July 2009
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This is the last in Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy, although Alexander doesn't really make an appearance in it at all. His shadow hovers over everything that happens, but he is dead by the start of the book. This is about how his followers, relatives, successors tore themselves apart after his death, each striving to assume power, to follow Alexander's wishes, to avenge old scores and feuds. Of course, the whole point of a man like Alexander is that no-one could follow him, no-one could live up to such a legend. Sometimes I think it's a strange way to end a trilogy of books about Alexander, with Alexander dead and gone by the end of the middle book, but I suppose how his empire disintegrated after him is as much a part of his story as anything that went on before.
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