{"product_id":"9780007545131","title":"An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Mendelsohn, Daniel \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 31\/05\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007545131,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  When eighty-one-year-old retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols in his estranged classicist son Daniel’s course on the Odyssey, the journey of a lifetime commences. Professor and student glean life lessons from the page over a semester and, that summer, son and father take to the sea to follow Odysseus’s epic trail. Reading Homer becomes their chance to understand each other before it’s too late. Theirs is a moving and erudite story of filial love and the importance of the classics. Rich with literary and emotional insight and weaving themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home, this is memoir writing at its finest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697293230124,"sku":"9780007545131","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780007545131_c5674db6-5312-49bc-bad6-1aa76f61e541.jpg?v=1759663177","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780007545131","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}