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Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and NewsdayA Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford PrizeFrom award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading—and reliving—Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth—and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes...

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Author

Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam;Mendelsohn, Jay

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385350600

Category

travel

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism

Rating

4.48 / 5 (161 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14