The Penelopiad The Myth of Penelope And Odysseus

bitin....insightful....funny....and successfuly questions the way classics are read n understood [here homer's odysseus]...

I read this while teaching "The Odyssey". It is the creative writing assignment I wish I had thought of....

Awesome little book - can be read and enjoyed in one sitting. This is a retelling of the Odysseus legend from Penelope's POV - she and her 12 maids who he ordered to be killed upon his return from his odyssey. Written as part prose, part song verse (with the maids offering the song) it's quite simply brilliant storytelling. but then i would never expect anything less...more

Awesome little book - can be read and enjoyed in one sitting. This is a retelling of the Odysseus legend from Penelope's POV - she and her 12 maids who he ordered to be killed upon his return from his odyssey. Written as part prose, part song verse (with the maids offering the song) it's quite simply brilliant storytelling. but then i would never expect anything less from Margaret Atwood anyway!   hide

I love Margaret Atwood's fiction...like Edith Wharton, she should stick w/social criticism and not attempt parody.