Thomas Burnett Swann’s The Weirwoods (1967) is his second novel, a story of slavery and freedom, of love and grief, set at the waning of Etruscan power in ancient Italy. Come for the ancient historical fantasy, stay for the achingly beautiful meditations on love, loss, and belonging.
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Reading “Day of the Minotaur” by Thomas Burnett Swann
Thomas Burnett Swann’s Day of the Minotaur (1966) is his first novel, a sometimes messy, sometimes saccharine, sometimes poignant novel about the final days of the prehuman mythic beings as human civilization pushes them to extinction.