"The world of medieval England is a strange and contradictory place: a wonderland of bright religion and dark magic, harsh betrayals and unyielding bonds, fierce battling and noble ideals, back-breaking work by the peasantry and a kind of lush if fragile comfort among the ruling classes. Here, from the vantage of the 21 st century, it is a place of storytelling enchantment echoing down the hallways of time as a kind of warning mirror to our own bleak and morally violent times."
"Portland writer Richard Lewis' smart and time-bending new novel Falcon: The Whole Story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is bathed in the waters of one of the English language's most vivid tales of enchantment: the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and more specifically the tale of Arthur's nephew Gawain, his unlikely encounter with and beheading of a strange green giant who blithely picks up his severed head and saunters"
Medieval England appears filled with stark contradictions: bright religion alongside dark magic, harsh betrayals and unyielding bonds, fierce battles amid noble ideals, and back-breaking peasant labor contrasted with fragile aristocratic comfort. A contemporary retelling renders the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrative in contemporary English while preserving core plot beats and evoking medieval diction through antiquarian-leaning sonnets before chapters. The plot centers on a New Year’s feast in Camelot, a mysterious green rider’s beheading challenge, Gawain’s obligation to honor a year-later return, and the moral and magical tensions that test knightly honor, merit, and skepticism.
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