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Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen (Recent Picador Highlights) Book

Turning inside out the traditional view of David as a beloved king and gentle author of the Psalms, India Edghill's well-written debut novel Queenmaker paints a dark picture of the lauded biblical hero as seen through the eyes of his first wife, Michal. David's silver-tongued way with words captures Michal's heart, but her marriage to him is soon annulled by her half-mad father, King Saul. She's packed off to marry the widowed farmer Phaltiel, whom Michal soon learns to love. When David gains the throne of Israel and sends for Michal, she discovers that David has become a king who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Through courage and wit, Michal must carve out a new life as the queen and wife of a man she now despises. Edghill isn't afraid to change biblical narrative to suit her story, and paints David as a selfish, grasping leader whose feet of clay are all too evident in this tale. Those who like their biblical narrative served straight up and their heroes untarnished may be disturbed by this reassessment; those who like a good story and a new spin on biblical champions, however, will enjoy this unvarnished look at one of Judaism's and Christianity's most lauded personalities. --Cindy CrosbyRead More

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  • Product Description

    Published by Picador, 2002, a FIRST EDITION, first Thus softcover with 368 pages. No DJ as issued.This book brings to the foreground Michal, King David's first queen, the daughter of Saul, and a person, this book suggests, at the center of the court's politics. Revealing the human foibles of Biblical figures whom we have come to regard as superhumans, this book is an entertaining speculation about what might have been happening then.

  • 1865087165
  • 9780312289195
  • India Edghill
  • 1 July 1990
  • Picador USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
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