EAN: 9780007545131

AN ODYSSEY A FATHER A SON AND AN EPIC - DANIEL ...

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 retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols in his
estranged classicist son Daniel's course on the Odyssey   the journey of a lifetime commences.
Professor and student glean life lessons from the page over a semester and  that summer  son
and father take to the sea to follow Odysseus's epic trail. Reading Homer becomes their chance
to understand each other before it's too late. Theirs is a moving and erudite story of filial
love and the importance of the classics. Rich with literary and emotional insight and weaving
themes of deception and recognition  marriage and children  the pleasures of travel and the
meaning of home  this is memoir writing at its finest.

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