![]() ![]() I can tell you now: myth was in the air there as well. I met Michaelides in New York in October at the rooftop launch party for Celadon, Macmillan’s brand new imprint-right before, coincidentally, I was leaving for a writers residency on the Greek island of Rhodes. “Myth was everywhere-it was in the very air,” he says. Michaelides grew up with a Greek Cypriot father and an English mother on Cyprus, where, he tells me, the Greek tragedies were always being performed. Rescued from Hades by Hercules, she’s brought back to life but remains silent. The story was inspired by Alcestis, one of Euripides’s plays, in which the woman of the title agrees to die to save her husband. ![]() In the novel, a famous painter, Alicia Berenson, fatally shoots her successful fashion photographer husband in the face one evening and stops speaking. ![]()
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