An Arrow's Flight is a joyous and eccentric tour-de-force by the author of American Studies and Man About Town. The siege of Troy has dragged on for ten years, with no end in sight, when an oracle supplies the Greeks with the recipe for victory. All they need is Pyrrhus, son...
As modern as a mobile phone and as ancient as The Iliad, Mark Merlis's second novel occupies two worlds simultaneously. Behold Pyrrhus - an archer's body and a hero among hustlers. Bartop stripper with the world at his feet or at least that part of which gathers nightly...