King Hereafter Av Dorothy Dunnett

Back in print by popular demand--"A stunning revelation of the historical Macbeth, harsh and brutal and eloquent." --<b>Washington Post Book World.</b><br><br>With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past.  In <b>King Hereafter</b>, Dorothy Dunnett''s stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland.  Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue.  He calls himself Thorfinn but his Christian name is Macbeth.<br><br>Dunnett depicts Macbeth''s transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself.  She creates characters who are at once wholly creatures of another time yet always recognizable--and she does