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Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.
For February 14, Coté will read aloud from Zachary Mason’s novel The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
Summary: 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.
.As the author points out in his preface, the Iliad and the Odyssey were born of an oral bardic tradition in which poets recounted competing versions of the same ancient events. Homer is remembered for having crafted these disparate stories into perhaps the world’s greatest epic poems.
In an attempt to recreate the pre-Homeric experience, Mason imagines each of his forty-four chapters as an alternative version to the standard Homeric texts; each presents a different version or perspective, sometimes conflicting, of the famous tales.
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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