The Lost Books of the Odyssey · A Novel

The Lost Books of the Odyssey · A Novel
Authors
Mason, Zachary
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Tags
literary , fiction , psychological , classics , fantasy
ISBN
9780374192150
Date
2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.21 MB
Lang
en
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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.