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An Odyssey. A Father, A Son and an Epic
Daniel Mendelsohn
- Harper Collins UK
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Publisher | Harper Collins UK |
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ISBN | 9780007545131 |
Publication date | May 2018 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 320 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
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.