The Lost Books of the Odyssey

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.

About the author

Zachary Mason is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Lost Books of the Odyssey and, more recently, Void Star, which has been optioned for film. He lives in California.

Product details

• Authors: Zachary Mason
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.05.2011
• EAN: 9780099547075
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954707-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Historical / Ancient, Ancient Greece, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction