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Through the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving story of a daddy and son's transformative trip in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece. When 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn determines to enrol in the undergraduate workshop on The Odyssey that his kid Daniel shows at Bard University, the two find themselves on an excitement as profoundly psychological as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who perceives the world by having a mathematician's unforgiving sight, this return to the class is his 'one last chance' to learn about the great literature he'd neglected in his young ones - and, even more, your final chance to understand his kid. But through the sometimes uncomfortable weeks that follow, as both men explore Homer's great work together - first in the class, where Jay persistently troubles his son's interpretations, and then throughout a surprise-filled Mediterranean trip retracing Odysseus' legendary voyages - it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too, for Jay's replies to both word and the journeys little by little uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to comprehend his difficult daddy finally. As this intricately woven memoir develops to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative involves echo The Odyssey itself, using its timeless themes or templates of deception and popularity, relationship and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and psychological insight, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most revelatory entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration.

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