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Homer's Odyssey / Simon Armitage.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
822.9 ARM	Adult Non Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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ISBN	0571229352 (hbk.)
ISBN	9780571229352 (hbk.)
Name	Armitage, Simon, 1963-
Title	Homer's Odyssey / Simon Armitage.
Published	London : Faber and Faber, 2006.
Description	vi, 266 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary	"In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly, lotus-eating, homesick companions; between subtle Odysseus (wiliest hero of antiquity) and a range of shape-shifting adversaries - Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops - as he and his men are 'pinballed between islands' by adversity." "The Odyssey is a book of changes, and Simon Armitage's retelling of Homer's epic quickens and revitalizes our sense of it as oral poetry: as indeed one of the greatest of tall tales."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects	Homer. -- Odyssey -- Adaptations
Other Names	Homer. Odyssey
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Homer. -- Odyssey -- Adaptations . Authors: Armitage, Simon, 1963- . Homer. Odyssey .