The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393330816)

In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; and between subtle Odysseus (wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries--Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops--as he and his men are "pinballed between islands" of adversity. One of the most individual voices of his generation, Armitage revitalizes our sense of the Odyssey as oral poetry, as indeed one of the greatest of tall tales.

Author: Simon Armitage
ISBN-10: 0393330818
ISBN-13: 9780393330816
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.76w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2008 pg. 30
New York Times Book Review 04/27/2008 pg. 20
New York Times Book Review 05/04/2008 pg. 22