The Lost Books of the Odyssey

Name: The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Brand: Vintage
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By Zachary Mason

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After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time and he watches his family age and die in front of him; he walks into an empty house in ruins; he returns but is so bored he sets sail again to repeat his voyage; he comes back to find Penelope is dead. In these forty-four retellings of passages from Homer's Odyssey, Zachary Mason uses Homer's linear narrative and explodes it: presenting alternative and contradictory fragments of familiar stories - the Trojan Horse, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens - allowing us to see Homer's masterpiece afresh. Elegant, provocative and utterly fascinating, The Lost Books of the Odyssey seems destined to become a modern classic.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 240
Release Date:: 2011-05-05
Publication Date:: 2011-05-05
Publisher:: Vintage
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0099547074
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 170 g
Height:: 19.8 cm
Width:: 12.9 cm
Thickness:: 1.5 cm

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