Sharon Spencer's "Dance of the Ariadnes" is a dazzling foray into the mysteries of myth as experienced by two very modern women whose excitement and suspenseful yearnings swell with each unfolding chapter. Readers will delight in the sequences of dream, reverie, and reality, intricately knit together in a unique poetics of eroticism.
Mysteries in general, Aristotle wrote, were not intended to teach a doctrine, but to be felt. Spencer's "Dance of the Ariadnes" is just that--a feast for the senses. Esoteric in nature, the word "mystery" stems from the Greek word meaning "I make enter"; the intention being to open the door, to make accessible what has been lying hidden or buried in darkness. Spencer's concretization of the elusive in the word, while arresting space and time, never profanes the sacred!
Book Description
Having been abandoned by a mysterious man she'd met on the Yugoslavian island of Korchula, Miranda is set on a course of loneliness, pent-up passion, and longing. When she sets foot on Crete, her fortunes begin to change, as she is caught up in the web spun by the Serbian actress Divna, and her estranged husband, Dionysios. Following the steps of mythological Greek characters, this triangle of lust and passion heads toward both ecstasy and tragedy.
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