An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a stock image not a photo of the book you will receive. Cover design and colour may vary. Stock image does not show any wear and tear that the book may have. An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardcover Publisher: William Collins Published: 2017 Condition: Standard Secondhand. A good used copy. May have some shelf wear or previous-owner marks. Dispatched within one working day from our Yorkshire warehouse. Free UK delivery. About this book SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: 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 enrol in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel 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 understand his son. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that follow, as the two men explore Homer s great work together - first in the classroom, where Jay
- ISBN: 9780007545124
- Condition: Good
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