SUMMARY: A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITERZachary Masonβs brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homerβs classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brillia
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
β Scribed by Mason, Zachary
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780224090223
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITERZachary Masonβs brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homerβs 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 Homerβs 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.
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SUMMARY: A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITERZachary Masonβs brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homerβs classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brillia