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Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog--alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, Aztec, and other traditions"--Page 4 of cover.
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XO Orpheus, Kate Bernheimer
- Language
- Released
- 2013
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- XO Orpheus
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kate Bernheimer
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 546
- ISBN10
- 0143122428
- ISBN13
- 9780143122425
- Series
- New Fairy Tales
- Categories
- Tags
- World Literature
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog--alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, Aztec, and other traditions"--Page 4 of cover.