(Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.)
"The Lost Books of the Odyssey" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) by Zachary Mason drew this comment The New York Time s: "Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel re-imagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With hypnotic prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's 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." ...
http://www.examiner.com/contemporary-literature-in-national/homer-s-odyssey-re-imagined-a-beguilingly-imaginative-novel-review
"The Lost Books of the Odyssey" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) by Zachary Mason drew this comment The New York Time s: "Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel re-imagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With hypnotic prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's 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." ...
http://www.examiner.com/contemporary-literature-in-national/homer-s-odyssey-re-imagined-a-beguilingly-imaginative-novel-review
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