Praise for
The Hour of the Bell:
"Petrakis has taken up this challenge and on Kazantzakis’s flaming tree of fire, whose fruit is light, has hung his own dazzling pomegranate, bearing the seeds of more fruit to come."
— Kimon Friar
“Petrakis writes as though he had lived through the Greek Revolution."
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Publisher's Weekly
"In a time when the anti-hero, anti-story and anti-talent are in vogue, Harry Mark Petrakis has the courage to bring out an epic rich in tension, action and heroism, full of the zests of life, a tale of the 1821 Greek War of Independence which will endure as
a remarakable literary achievement."
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Harry Mark Petrakis is the author of
twenty-two books, including A Dream of Kings, which was made
into a major motion picture. He has held appointments at Ohio University
as McGuffy Visiting Lecturer and at San Francisco State University
as Kazantzakis Professor in Modern Greek Studies. He was twice nominated
for the National Book Award in Fiction, won the O. Henry Award, and
received awards from Friends of American Writers, Friends of Literature,
and the Society of Midland Authors. |
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