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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading-and relivin -Homer's epic masterpiece. "My favourite classicist once again combines meticulous literary investigation with warm and wrenching human emotion - books like these are why ...Show more
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A timeless and inspiring gift for Father's Day. Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday ... A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017 ... Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
28.00 NZD
Category: History
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unm ...Show more
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
20.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.'Astounding' Sebastian Barry'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar'This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise'Jonathan LethemIn this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn ...Show more
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