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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017

by Daniel Mendelsohn
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 - Thryft
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 - Thryft
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017

by Daniel Mendelsohn
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ISBN: 9780007545131
Authors: Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2018-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: Memoir, History, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Biography
Goodreads rating: 4.26
(rated by 5582 readers)

Description

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 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.
 
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.