A _New York Times_ Bestseller A _New York Times Book Review_ Editorsβ Choice Zachary Masonβs brilliant and beguiling debut novel reimagines Homerβs classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With hypnotic prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary
The lost books of the odyssey: a novel: novel
β Scribed by Mason, Zachary
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2010;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1429952490
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β¦ Synopsis
A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.
β¦ Subjects
A Novel
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