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The Penelopiad

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781920885953 Author(s): Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback Year: 2005 Publisher: Text Publishing Co Dimensions: 128 x 15 x 198 (w x l x h) Pages: 224 Series: Text Myth Series

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Description: The series that began in October with Karen Armstrong's compelling A Short History of Myth continues, with electrifying new works of fiction from two of the world's most loved writers. Booker Award-winner Margaret Atwood, who has reworked the traditional telling of the Odyssey narrative, says- I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing chorus which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of The Odyssey- what led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water; there are too many inconsistencies. I've always been haunted by the hanged maids; and in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself.

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