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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.
Mendelsohn, Jay, 1929-2012 -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Influence.
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Fathers and sons -- Biography.
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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.
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An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic / Daniel Mendelsohn.
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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, 2017.
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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.
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