Word: odyssey
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...Lost Books of the Odyssey,” Zachary Mason’s mesmerizing new novel, takes Odysseus’s homeward bound journey and riddles it with uncertainty. Ithaca could be the hero’s home or it could be an illusion. Odysseus himself may be the author of his own story; his heroic deeds could be merely his own invention. There’s no one end, no one story. Mason’s tale doesn’t just wander—it writhes...
Mason’s stories are brief and flavorful. In a short introduction to the book, he presents his vignettes as recently discovered fragments containing alternative versions of “The Odyssey.” One story has Odysseus (here named “Mr. O.”) living in a sanatorium, where he spends his days trying to remember a distant war. Another has him as Agamemnon’s prized assassin, faced with the unfortunate order of killing himself. Sticking with the pretext of fragmentation, Mason never fully fleshes out the action in each tale...
...indeed, both models were strong performers in January, in what was otherwise a subpar month. So the automaker not only gets an opportunity to reap a windfall in sales; it also can liquidate excess inventory without adjusting production levels or resorting to incentives. Supplies of its Pilot SUV and Odyssey minivan are about normal, and only its popular CRV crossover is in short supply...