TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernheimer,Kate
TI  - xo Orpheus: fifty new myths 
SN  - 9780143122425
AV  - PS3602.E76 .X6 2013
U1  - 813/.608037 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Mythology, Greek
KW  - Fiction
KW  - FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling 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, in compelling guise, are your favorite mythological figures-Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog-alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, and other traditions. Featuring talkative goats, a cat lady, a bird woman, a beer-drinking ogre, and a squid who falls in love with the sun, these are stories of boundless wonder and invention.  If "xo" signals a goodbye, then xo Orpheus is a goodbye to an old way of mythmaking, a book that boldly heralds a new beginning for one of the world's oldest literary traditions"--
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