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An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic / Daniel Mendelsohn.
Author
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
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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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Firestone Library - Stacks
CT275.M46919 A3 2017
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Subject(s)
Fathers and sons
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United States
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Biography
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Fathers
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United States
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Death
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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam 1960-
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Odysseus King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
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Influence
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Homer
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Odyssey
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Influence
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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam 1960-
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Travel
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Mediterranean Region
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Mendelsohn, Jay 1929-2012
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Travel
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Mediterranean Region
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Related name
Mendelsohn, Jay, 1929-2012
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Travel writing
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Autobiographies
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travelog (performed works genre)
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travelers’ writings
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Summary note
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.
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ISBN
9780385350594 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
0385350597 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2017011844
OCLC
966850185
Other standard number
40027466901
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