The Lost Books of the Odyssey [Zachary Mason]

[Mythic] [Prose] [Underrated]

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

Zachary Mason

FSG, NY. 2010. First hardcover edition. Like new.

From the publisher:

"Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With hypnotic prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that, taken together, open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent."

This is just a book that I love, don't think is read enough, and something I'd like to "hand sell" you on. So buy it and enjoy it! Mythic poetry for the modern world. What's not to love?