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From award-winning memoirist and critic, and best-selling writer of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a dad and son's transformative voyage in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece. When 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn makes a decision to sign up in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard School, the two find themselves on an excursion as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eye, this go back to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the fantastic books he'd neglected in his children - and, even more, your final chance to more grasp his son, a article 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 issues his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean voyage retracing Odysseus's famous voyages - it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's reactions to both the text and the trips slowly but surely uncover long-buried secrets that permit the son to understand his difficult dad finally. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative involves echo the Odyssey itself, using its timeless themes of deception and popularity, matrimony and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Affluent with literary and emotional understanding, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration.

Category: Ancient & Classical