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With wit and verve, Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forge our own destiny. Visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day, Winterson's skill in turning the familiar on its head and showing us a different truth is once more put to dazzling effect.
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- Title
- Weight
- Subtitle
- The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jeanette Winterson
- Publisher
- CANONGATE BOOKS LTD
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 151
- ISBN10
- 1841957240
- ISBN13
- 9781841957241
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, British Literature, Mythology, English Literature, Fate, Atlases, Freedom, Greek Mythology, Gods, Hercules
- First published
- 2005
- Original title
- Weight
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- With wit and verve, Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forge our own destiny. Visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day, Winterson's skill in turning the familiar on its head and showing us a different truth is once more put to dazzling effect.