Beryl Fletcher

THE IRON MOUTH revolves around the attempts of a film maker, Khryse, to write a script based on Homer’s poem, the Iliad. As she transforms word into image, she becomes aware that the classic literary narratives of death & glory have continued to legitimate brutal aggression throughout the ages.

This novel explores multiple themes: post-colonial versions of warfare, contradictions of love & sex, obsessions with physical beauty & the search for refuge from both classic & modern forms of domestic violence. Poetically imagined & fast moving, the story is set within vivid & disturbing landscapes of sea & city.

Status

Available from Spinifex Press for worldwide distribution.
Mailto: women@spinifexpress.com.au

Distributed in New Zealand by Addenda Ltd. mailto:addenda@addenda.co.nz

Listed in the Top 20 books of the Listener Women’s Book Festival - 1993