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001			62145982
003			OCoLC
005			20211111162610.0
008			051025s2005 nyu 000 f eng c
020			_a1841957178
020			_a9781841957173
020			_a1841957984
020			_a9781841957982
024	3	0	_a9781841957173
035			_a(OCoLC)62145982 _z(OCoLC)493763080 _z(OCoLC)731229477
040			_aEYP _beng _cEYP _dBAKER _dNDD _dXY4 _dJZ6 _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dOCLCA _dCQU _dZWZ _dYUS _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dOCLCF _dP4I _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dOCLCA _dOCL _dOCLCQ _dBGU
042			_apcc
050		4	_aPR9199.3.A8 _bP46 2005
082	0	4	_a823/.914 _221
100	1		_aAtwood, Margaret, _d1939-
245	1	4	_aThe Penelopiad / _cMargaret Atwood
250			_a1st American ed
260			_aNew York : _bCanongate, _c©2005
300			_axv, 199 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aMyths
520			_aHomer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey: What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in the Odyssey doesn't hold water: there are too many inconsistencies. I've always been haunted by the hanged maids and, in The Penelopiad, so is Penelope herself. The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin presents a cycle of stories about Penelope, wife of Odysseus, through the eyes of the twelve maids hanged for disloyalty to Odysseus in his absence
600	0	0	_aOdysseus, _cKing of Ithaca (Mythological character) _vFiction
650		0	_aPenelope (Greek mythology) _vFiction
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787
830		0	_aMyths (Canongate Publishing)
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999			_c506204 _d506204