An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic Written By Daniel Mendelsohn

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Synopsys An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost, comes a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading -- and reliving -- Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, aretired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth -- and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together -- first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son'sinterpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's

Detail Book An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn

Pages : 306 pages

Publisher : William Collins

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0007545126

ISBN-13 : 9780007545124