Son of Nobody
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Book Overview The Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd's son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight w...
The Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd's son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight with the Greeks at Troy. This commoner's story was lost to time--until Harlow Donne, a Canadian academic who has left his own wife and daughter behind to study at Oxford, discovers its relics nearly thirty centuries later.
As sole translator and interpreter of The Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, a personal message to his beloved child appears in the ancient text, like a palimpsest. Despite the thousands of years and hundreds of miles that separate Psoas and Harlow, a thread hasn't frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of love, ambition, and grief.
Son of Nobody takes readers from the plains of Troy to the halls of Oxford, from the classical to the contemporary, from ancient verses to modern footnotes. It is a dazzling, masterful feat of myth, history, and domesticity that explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live--then, now, always.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 288 | Language: English | Publisher: W W NORTON & CO | ISBN: 132411813X
FormatHardcover
Pages288
LanguageEnglish
ISBN132411813X
EAN9781324118138
PublisherW W NORTON & CO
Publication Date2026-03-31
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.1 Pounds
Length9.18 Inches
Width6.35 Inches
Height1.23 Inches
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