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'Witty, playful, moving and tirelessly inventive. A supple, lyrical voice that captures the spirit of the original Odyssey and at the same time feels freshly contemporary...a stunning and hypnotic novel' New York Times
After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time and he watches his family age and die in front of him; he walks into an empty house in ruins; he returns but is so bored he sets sail again to repeat his voyage; he comes back to find Penelope is dead.
In these forty-four retellings of passages from Homer's Odyssey, Zachary Mason uses Homer's linear narrative and explodes it: presenting alternative and contradictory fragments of familiar stories - the Trojan Horse, the Cyclops Circe, the Sirens - allowing us to see Homer's masterpiece afresh. Elegant, provocative and utterly fascinating, The Lost Books of the Odyssey seems destined to become a modern classic.
'In his versions of these ancient myths Mason twists and jinks, renegotiating the journey to Ithaca with all the guile and trickery of Odysseus himself' Simon Armitage
'Mason allows this grand myth of homecoming no beginning or end, just banks of fog, endless mirrors, Borgesian labyrinths...Mason delights in doubles, spirals, conceptual mazes and Moebius strips...he is a wondrous pleasure to read' Los Angeles Times
'A subtle, inventive and moving meditation on the nature of story and what Louis MacNeice calls "the drunkenness of things being various"' John Banville
'Mason offers the reader a book of intellectual fireworks that also manages to be wonderfully entertaining' Sunday Times
With one foot firmly planted in antiquity and one in the postmodern world, the book is an odd but well-balanced hybrid, the kind of work that's usually thrown off as a lark by an established writer toying with new forms, like Carlyle's Sartor Resartus or DeLillo's Valparaiso. All the more impressive that a debut author could create such a compelling curio.
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Description du livre Hardback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR002008207
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. First Edition. First Edition (2010). No inscriptions or markings. Internally fine. Tanning to page block, top edge faintly dust-spotted (else a fine copy). Dust jacket is unclipped and undamaged, with negligible rubbing. Brown paper boards, sharp and fine, with bright gilt titling to the spine. vii, 228pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 1961
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. first printing, very good book, the Lost Books of the Odyyssey is elegant, allusive, provocative and utterly fascinating. N° de réf. du vendeur 010296
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. In the plain outside the walls of Troy, Agamemnon demands a fortress. With no materials except a few trees and unlimited sand, the Greeks dig a negative image of a palace into the white plain: a vast, inverted castle soaring into the depths of the earth. After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time and he watches his. N° de réf. du vendeur 0705