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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-     Subjects     Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-     Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.     Mendelsohn, Jay, 1929-2012 -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.     Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Influence.     Homer. Odyssey -- Influence.     Fathers and sons -- Biography.     Fathers -- Death.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-       by title:      An odyssey : a fathe...       by call number:      306.8742 M537o     Search the Web     Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-     Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-     Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.     Mendelsohn, Jay, 1929-2012 -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.     Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Influence.     Homer. Odyssey -- Influence.     Fathers and sons -- Biography.     Fathers -- Death.       MARC Display

An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic / Daniel Mendelsohn. by Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, 2017. Call #: 306.8742 M537o Subjects Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-   Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.   Mendelsohn, Jay, 1929-2012 -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.   Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Influence.   Homer. Odyssey -- Influence.   Fathers and sons -- Biography.   Fathers -- Death. ISBN:  9780771057427 (hc., Signal/McClelland & Stewart Canadian ed.) 9780385350594 (hc., Knopf USA ed.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  302 p. ; 25 cm. Notes:  A Borzoi book. Contents:  Proem (invocation): 1964-2011 -- Telemachy (education): January-February 2011 -- Apologoi (adventures): March-June -- Nostos (homecoming): April -- Anagnorisis (recognition): May -- S©®ma (the sign): April 6, 2012. Summary:  From the author of The Lost, 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, a retired 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's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages - it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. Mendelsohn's narrative comes to echo the Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Genre:  Travel memoirs. Other authors:  Mendelsohn, Jay, 1929-2012. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.8742 M537o Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.8742 M537o Adult books Checked out Jul 12, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 306.8742 M537o Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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