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Daniel Mendelsohn - Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017

Av Daniel Mendelsohn

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols in his estranged classicist son Daniel’s course on the Odyssey, the journey of a lifetime commences. Professor and student glean life lessons from the page over a semester and, that summer, son and father take to the sea to follow Odysseus’s epic trail. Reading Homer becomes their chance to understand each other before it’s too late. Theirs is a moving and erudite story of filial love and the importance of the classics. Rich with literary and emotional insight and weaving themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home, this is memoir writing at its finest.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-05-31
  • Mått: 128 x 200 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 229 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780007545131
  • Miljömärkning: Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.
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Daniel Mendelsohn is a prize-winning writer and critic. His books include the international best seller The Lost, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many others; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two collections of essays. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, he lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.

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‘A brilliant family memoir … At its core, it is a funny, loving portrait of a difficult but loving parent: … An Odyssey is a stellar contribution to the genre of memoirs about reading – literary analysis and the personal stories are woven together in a way that feels both artful and natural. A thoughtful book from which non-classicists will learn a great deal about Homer … A funny, loving portrait of a difficult but loving parent: a “much-turning man”’ Emily Wilson, Guardian

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