Posted
2/22/10. A hitherto unknown edisode from the story of
Odysseus' wanderings, as imagined by author Zachary Mason,
appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of The
Charles River Journal. In recent weeks, the book
from which this extract was taken, The
Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel, has been widely
and deservedly lauded in the critical press.
The Lost Books consists of a series
of pseudoepigraphal episodes which for whatever reasons didn't
make it into Homer's account when he recited the story of
Odysseus’ travels after the Trojan War for his audience
of ancient Greeks. First published by
Starcherone Books after being awarded the 2007 Starcherone
Fiction Prize...
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