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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Canongate U.S.

This is what I wished would happen, but like so many of my wishes it failed to come true. I recently read, and loved, Atwood's "The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus". Customers buy this book with The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by. The Penelopiad is Atwood's retelling of the myth of Odysseus (of The Odyssey) from the perspective of Penelope, Odysseus' wife, who waited at home for him for almost 20 years. This is the fourth book in the Canongate Myths Series that I've read, and incidentally, my first Margaret Atwood. Some, like Ali Smith, have rewritten a myth in modern language and placed the action in the present. The all-female cast is attempting to bring to the stage an adaptation of the Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, as retold by Margaret Atwood in her 2005 novel, The Penelopiad. Others, like Su Tong, Margaret Atwood mixes both of these methods together as she rewrites the tale of Odysseus from the viewpoint of his wife Penelope in 'The Penelopiad'. I liked the subversive After Atwood's The Penelopiad, I'm reading Jeanette Winterson's Weight and Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth, another title in the Canongate Myth series. It's the period of time covered by the Iliad and Odyssey, but told from Penelope's point of view. Now that I'm dead I know everything. In Margaret Atwood's play The Penelopiad, based on Homer's epic The Odyssey, Odysseus' spouse, Penelope, is portrayed in a way we've never known her: caustic, crafty, and unflinching. In The Penelopiad, she focuses on the terrible fate of Penelope's twelve maids, strung up by the neck by Odysseus and his son Telemachus once they have butchered Penelope's 120 suitors who endlessly harassed her in the 20 years of Odysseus' absence. The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus. The Penelopiad is the retelling of the myth of Penelope and Odysseus, with Penelope as our narrator. Written by Margaret Atwood Libri Reviewed by Jodie Authors taking part in the Canongate myths series have reinvented their chosen stories in a number of ways. The series, called 'The Myths',. €�Her twist on this well-known myth turns it on its head by giving Penelope the opportunity to tell her story in her own voice.” Margaret Atwood, Penelopiad. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and – curiously – twelve of Penelope's maids. From one of Canada's most acclaimed writers comes this fresh and witty retelling of The Odyssey myth.