The Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel

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A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Masons brilliant and beguiling debut novel The Lost Books of the Odyssey reimagines Homers classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose terrific imagination and dazzling literary skill Mason creates alternative episodes fragments and revisions of Homers 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.