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An odysseyDaniel Mendelsohn

An odyssey

2017306 pages
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Presents the story of a father and son's transformative shared journey in reading in the wake of the father's late-in-life enrollment in his son's undergraduate seminar, where the two engaged in debates over how to interpret Homer's classic masterpiece. "When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this…

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  • Other · English · 2017
    Alfred A. Knopf · 306 pages · 9780385350594
DeathFathersTravelInfluenceFathers and sonsBiographyNew York Times reviewedBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY