An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (Record no. 853)
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| control field | 853 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20231208154940.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780385350594 |
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| Transcribing agency | Booku |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 809 MEN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 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. |
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| Koha item type | Book |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Arts & Literature | Booku Library Services | Booku Library Services | 08/12/2023 | Donation | 809 MEN | 08/12/2023 | 1 | 08/12/2023 | Book |