AN ODYSSEY/ A FATHER, A SON, AN EPIC

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformati ve journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the unde rgraduate 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 th e classro...[Read more]