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Book Reviews of The Odyssey: A Stage Version

The Odyssey: A Stage Version
The Odyssey A Stage Version
Author: Derek Walcott, Homer Odyssey
ISBN-13: 9780374172497
ISBN-10: 0374172498
Publication Date: 4/1993
Pages: 159
Rating:
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5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
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mentalorigami avatar reviewed The Odyssey: A Stage Version on + 12 more book reviews
I enjoyed reading this very much, though I believe this play must be read by someone who is already fairly familiar with the original story itself, but I'm just stating the obvious. I enjoyed the bits of unexpected humor here and there, and I really enjoyed the ending, where (slight spoiler alert, avert eyes now!) Odysseus confuses the suitors with soldiers from Troy. That last bit seemed to add much more of a human quality to the story impossible to find in the original, where Odysseus was written to be a god-like figure. Happily, he's all mortal here.
reviewed The Odyssey: A Stage Version on + 813 more book reviews
Homers classic retold as a play with some Caribbean overtones. For me, much too abstract.