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A" New York Times "Bestseller
A "New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice""
Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel reimagines
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.
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Void Star (Paperback)
Zachary Mason
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In the tradition of Zachary Mason's bestselling first novel, The
Lost Books of the Odyssey - where he recast episodes from Homer's
masterpiece - Metamorphica now reimagines Ovid's epic poem of
endless transformation, Metamorphoses. Just as the Roman poet
reinvigorated the Greek Classical legends 700 years after Homer, so
Mason now gives us a radical and exciting renovation of those
myths, 2,000 years after Ovid. It retells the great stories of
Narcissus, Orpheus, Persephone, Icarus, Midas, Medea and Actaeon,
and strings them together like the stars in constellations - with
even Ovid himself entering the narrative. It's as though the
ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino - or
artificial intelligence - and brought glimmering back into our
world. Metamorphica re-engages with the elemental power of the
ancient shape-changing gods by keeping their essences while
rewriting their stories. It is this extraordinary narrative
approach that is so thrilling; we watch as the author extracts more
and more out of the original legend - adding infinite perspectives
to narratives we thought we knew. Mason understands that the great
myths are parables - always in flux, always relevant - always
throwing shards of light from the morning of the world.
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Void Star (Hardcover)
Zachary Mason
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Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes
are emptying but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco
where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous
poor. Irina isn't rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial
memory that gives her perfect recall, and lets her act as a medium
between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to
the point of opacity. It's a good gig, paying enough for the annual
visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from ageing. Kern has no
such access; he's one of the many refugees in the sprawling
drone-built favelas on the city's periphery, where he lives like a
monk, training relentlessly in martial arts, scraping by as a thief
and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely - the
mathematically-inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan, he's
fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father
dead. A ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much
he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong
mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop's screen
in her employer's eyeglasses. None are safe as they're pushed
together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight. Vivid,
tumultuous and propulsive, Void Star is Zachary Mason's
mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut The Lost Books of
the Odyssey.
After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to
Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife
Penelope has betrayed him and married; his arrival accelerates time
and he watches his family age and die in front of him; he walks
into an empty house in ruins; he returns but is so bored he sets
sail again to repeat his voyage; he comes back to find Penelope is
dead. In these forty-four retellings of passages from Homer's
Odyssey, Zachary Mason uses Homer's linear narrative and explodes
it: presenting alternative and contradictory fragments of familiar
stories - the Trojan Horse, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens -
allowing us to see Homer's masterpiece afresh. Elegant, provocative
and utterly fascinating, The Lost Books of the Odyssey seems
destined to become a modern classic.
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Void Star Lib/E (Standard format, CD)
Zachary Mason; Read by Cassandra Campbell, Tristan Morris, Sean Pratt, Michael Braun
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R2,618
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Discovery Miles 18 150
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Void Star (Standard format, CD)
Zachary Mason; Read by Cassandra Campbell, Tristan Morris, Sean Pratt, Michael Braun
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R990
R734
Discovery Miles 7 340
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