# The Lost Books of the Odyssey

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- Authors: [Zachary Mason](https://www.bookquiver.com/zachary-mason)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-05-05

## Description

After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time and he watches his family age and die in front of him; he walks into an empty house in ruins; he returns but is so bored he sets sail again to repeat his voyage; he comes back to find Penelope is dead. In these forty-four retellings of passages from Homer's Odyssey , Zachary Mason uses Homer's linear narrative and explodes it: presenting alternative and contradictory fragments of familiar stories - the Trojan Horse, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens - allowing us to see Homer's masterpiece afresh. Elegant, provocative and utterly fascinating, The Lost Books of the Odyssey seems destined to become a modern classic.

## Editions

### The Lost Books of the Odyssey

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-707-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2011-05-05
- Language: en_GB