Metamorphica / Zachary Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, Zachary, 1974- author.

Contributor:

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Adaptations.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Adaptations.

Ovid.

Literature--Adaptations.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 282 pages : maps ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

In the tradition of his bestselling debut novel The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason's Metamorphica transforms Ovid's epic poem of endless transformation. It reimagines the stories of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Galatea, Midas and Atalanta, and strings them together like the stars in constellations--even Ovid becomes a story. It's as though the ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino; Metamorphica is an archipelago in which to linger for a while; it reflects a little light from the morning of the world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780374208646

0374208646

OCLC:

1008987192