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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX M DITERRAN E 2018From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and sons transformative journey in readingand relivingHomers epic masterpiece.When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enrol in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematicians unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is hisone last chance to learn the great literature hed neglected in his youthand, even more, a final opportunity to understand his son.But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that follow, as the two men explore Homers great work togetherfirst in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his sons interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus legendary voyagesit becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too. For Jays responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the Daniel to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohns narrative comes to echo the Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home.Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a renowned writers most revelatory entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration.

• Book Type :

Higher Education Textbooks

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

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• ISBN - 10 :

0007545126

• An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic Published On :

Import, 7 Sep 2017

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