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The Resource An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
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The item An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
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The item An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).
This item is available to borrow from 8 library branches.
- Summary
- A 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 in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to deeply echo The Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel, and the meaning of home
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9780771057427
- Label
- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic
- Title
- An odyssey
- Title remainder
- a father, a son, and an epic
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Mendelsohn
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A 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 in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to deeply echo The Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel, and the meaning of home
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
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- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam
- Dewey number
- 370.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam
- Mendelsohn, Jay
- Homer
- Fathers and sons
- College teachers
- Scientists
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- An odyssey : a father, a son, and an epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
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- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- Hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9780771057427
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- 25 cm
- Edition
- Hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 306 pages
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- 9780771057427
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- unmediated
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