{"product_id":"9780099547075","title":"The Lost Books of the Odyssey","description":"Author: Mason, Zachary\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099547075\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jul 2011\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary imagining of episodes, fragments and revisions of Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, a book destined to become a modern classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these forty-four retellings of passages from Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Books of the Odyssey \u003c\/i\u003eseems destined to become a modern classic.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47421768401054,"sku":"UBD-9780099547075","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780099547075.jpg?v=1780548668","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780099547075","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}