An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic / Daniel Mendelsohn.

Author
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
306 pages ; 25 cm

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    Presents the story of a father and son's transformative shared journey in reading in the wake of the father's late-in-life enrollment in his son's undergraduate seminar, where the two engaged in debates over how to interpret Homer's classic masterpiece.
    Contents
    • Proem (invocation): 1964-2011
    • Telemachy (education): January-February 2011
    • Apologoi (adventures): March-June
    • Nostos (homecoming): April
    • Anagnorisis (recognition): May
    • Sêma (the sign): April 6, 2012.
    ISBN
    • 9780385350594 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 0385350597 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2017011844
    OCLC
    966850185
    Other standard number
    • 40027466901
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