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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...
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"A memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers-Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald-and their relationship with the classics, from Homer to Mimesis. In a genre-defying book hailed as "exquisite" (The New York Times) and "spectacular" (the TLS), best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of...
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