The Persian Boy Style:Paperback Although Jean is the only

Although Jean is the only midwife in the village and for miles around

watching the hours pass

her long-awaited promotion will be secured

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with scenes of such utter bathos that only a student of final reels such as Puig could possibly have verbally recreated for us” (Alexander Coleman

The Persian Boy Style:Paperback Although Jean is the onlyBy: Mary Renault The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexanders life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After