![]() 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. 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. Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prizeįrom 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. ![]() Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday ![]()
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