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Quicksilver
By Spinner, Stephanie
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37582-638-2 978-0-37592-638-9
- Publisher
- Knopf
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2005
Gr 7-10 Spinner's "Quiver" (Knopf, 2002) was a somber and fully imagined re-creation of the myth of Atalanta. "Quicksilver", as befits its subject -the god Hermes -is lighter and occasionally even silly as the author aims for the appropriate narrative voice for this multifaceted deity who escorts the dead to the underworld. In the early pages, the trickster aspect of Hermes's personality dominates as the messenger god runs errands for Zeus, the father he loves, and gets involved in the lives of the mortals and demigods whom he encounters. At times he seems almost like the wise...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2005
"It's dark and gloomy, and it smells like dead sheep, but when Zeus says go to Hell, I go," says Hermes with refreshing literalism in a nicely laconic take on the activities of this unusually human Greek divinity. Spinner characterizes Hermes as a likable boy desirous of his father's affection, a person always working for someone else (he's the messenger god, after all) but...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
