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

E-bok, Engelska, 2017

Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017

Av Daniel Mendelsohn

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From the best-selling author of `The Lost’, a moving memoir about a father, a son and the lessons of a lifetime.`An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic’ twines an ongoing reading of the most popular and beloved works of literature, Homer’s Odyssey – with its irresistible tales of travel and adventure, and its eternal themes of transformed identities and climactic recognitions—around a personal journey of modern family life.This intimate narrative is a father-son story: an account of a year-long reading of the poem that Mendelsohn undertakes with his ailing father, first in the classroom, then on their travels around the Mediterranean in the footsteps of Odysseus. How the ancient tale effects its own unexpected recognitions and transformations in the relationship between father and son, and eventually, in the enduring questions that they faced once he fell ill and began to die, becomes a moving adventure of both the real and the metaphorical.Exploring the old poem, about long journeys and long marriages and long estrangements and about wanting to go home, `An Odyssey’ illuminates some remarkable and unexpected similarities between the past of our forefathers and the present of our own fathers.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-09-07
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9780007545148
  • Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers
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Daniel Mendelsohn was born in Long Island and educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books as well as the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review, and is contributing editor at Travel + Leisure. His previous books include the memoir The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and the international best seller ‘The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million’, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix Médicis, and many other honours. He teaches at Bard College.

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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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