A Dream of Kings

At the heart of this New York Times best-selling novel, we find Leonidas Matsoukas, operator of the Pindar Counseling Service (solutions provided for all problems of life and love); proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes; passionately loving husband and father, equally passionate lover of the beautiful bakeshop proprietor Anthoula; inveterate gambler, mighty fighter... Leonidas Matsoukas, heels run down cuffs shabby, collar frayed, is the hero of "A Dreams of Kings."

Hero. That is the word. The gods have chosen you for eternal disaster, "his friend Cicero, the gambling-house dealer tells Matsoukas, "but you take every act that has been prepared for your punishment and turn it into some kind of triumph."

Every act but one - the tragedy that has befallen his only son, Stavros. And even that Matsoukas is determined to reverse.

For Stavros, Matsoukas pits himself against Fate, in the classic Greek sin of hubris. This is the story of that conflict - Matsoukas against the gods - a novel of enormous power huge laughter, both heartbreaking and triumphant.

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A Dream of Kings

At the heart of this New York Times best-selling novel, we find Leonidas Matsoukas, operator of the Pindar Counseling Service (solutions provided for all problems of life and love); proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes; passionately loving husband and father, equally passionate lover of the beautiful bakeshop proprietor Anthoula; inveterate gambler, mighty fighter... Leonidas Matsoukas, heels run down cuffs shabby, collar frayed, is the hero of "A Dreams of Kings."

Hero. That is the word. The gods have chosen you for eternal disaster, "his friend Cicero, the gambling-house dealer tells Matsoukas, "but you take every act that has been prepared for your punishment and turn it into some kind of triumph."

Every act but one - the tragedy that has befallen his only son, Stavros. And even that Matsoukas is determined to reverse.

For Stavros, Matsoukas pits himself against Fate, in the classic Greek sin of hubris. This is the story of that conflict - Matsoukas against the gods - a novel of enormous power huge laughter, both heartbreaking and triumphant.

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A Dream of Kings

A Dream of Kings

by Harry Mark Petrakis
A Dream of Kings

A Dream of Kings

by Harry Mark Petrakis

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Overview

At the heart of this New York Times best-selling novel, we find Leonidas Matsoukas, operator of the Pindar Counseling Service (solutions provided for all problems of life and love); proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes; passionately loving husband and father, equally passionate lover of the beautiful bakeshop proprietor Anthoula; inveterate gambler, mighty fighter... Leonidas Matsoukas, heels run down cuffs shabby, collar frayed, is the hero of "A Dreams of Kings."

Hero. That is the word. The gods have chosen you for eternal disaster, "his friend Cicero, the gambling-house dealer tells Matsoukas, "but you take every act that has been prepared for your punishment and turn it into some kind of triumph."

Every act but one - the tragedy that has befallen his only son, Stavros. And even that Matsoukas is determined to reverse.

For Stavros, Matsoukas pits himself against Fate, in the classic Greek sin of hubris. This is the story of that conflict - Matsoukas against the gods - a novel of enormous power huge laughter, both heartbreaking and triumphant.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940011322341
Publisher: Harry Mark Petrakis
Publication date: 05/24/2011
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 201 KB

About the Author

Harry Mark Petrakis is the author of twenty-three books, short-stories, and essays, and has been nominated twice for the National Book Award. His books include the 'A Dream of Kings' (1966), set in Chicago, which was a New York Times bestseller. It was published in twelve foreign editions and was made into a motion picture (1969) starring Anthony Quinn. He has won the O. Henry Award, and received awards from Friends of American Writers, Friends of Literature, and the Society of Midland Authors. He was the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair in Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University and the McGuffy Visiting Lecturer at Ohio University. In 2004, the American College of Greece in Athens presented him with an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree.

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