The Penelopiad

Resource Information

The work The Penelopiad represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Penelopiad

Statement of responsibility

Margaret Atwood

Creator

• Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Electronic books
• Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- Fiction
• Penelope, (Greek mythological character) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, '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.' One of the high points of literary fiction in 2005, this critically acclaimed story found a vast audience

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

823/.914

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Myths

Target audience

adult