Zachary Mason

The Lost Books of the Odyssey (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446477632
• Artikelnr.: 39271014

Autorenporträt

Zachary Mason is the author of the New York Times bestsellingnovel The Lost Books of the Odyssey and, more recently, Void Star, which has been optioned for film.He lives in California.

Rezensionen

A subtle, inventive and moving meditation on the nature of story and what Louis MacNeice calls 'the drunkenness of things being various' John Banville