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Daniel Mendelsohn

An Odyssey

A Father, A Son, and an Epic

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A New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club PickFrom award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: 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 Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his one last chance to learn the great literature he'd neglected… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-345-80621-5
  • EAN: 9780345806215
  • Produktnummer: 25151876
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H20.2 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.0 cm 245 g
  • Gewicht: 245

Über den Autor


DANIEL MENDELSOHN is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where he is the Editor at Large. His books include the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy; and two collections of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken and Waiting for the Barbarians. A professor of Humanities at Bard College, he is Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation.

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