Penelopiad, The

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Published Sept. 1, 2015 by Brilliance Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-5012-9808-0
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4 stars (38 reviews)

35 editions

Loved Penelope's sense of humour

4 stars

I saw AJ Sterkel's review of The Penelopiad on her blog Read All The Things - ajsterkel.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/review-penelopiad-margaret-atwood.html - back in January 2018 and thought I might enjoy the book, so was then delighted to spot this reissue on NetGalley a few weeks later. I've had a copy of Homer's The Odyssey sitting on my bookshelf for at least a year now awaiting reading. I don't think I've ever actually read the whole book, although I know the gist of several of Odysseus' adventures, and I admit being put off by its 300-odd epic-poem-in-small-print pages. The Penelopiad's relative brevity was far more enticing!

Atwood focusses on what Penelope might have done and felt during the years Odysseus was away firstly at war and then 'lost' on his famous odyssey home, and has Penelope tell us her side of the story from the afterlife where she is still surrounded by many of …

reviewed The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (The myths series)

Even before she publicly pulled a Rowling, this book would've been a big hint.

1 star

Content warning Long review: Mentions of views that exclude and misrepresent sex workers.

Review of 'The Penelopiad' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

A fantastic re-imagining of The Odyssey from Penelope's point of view. Atwood is brilliant as always. She cleverly has Penelope retell the story in the underworld. This means Penelope is able to comment not only on ancient Greek culture but on our current cultural oddities as well.

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