Penelopiad
Subtitle: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Series: Myths
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Published: October 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781841957173
Subjects: Atwood, Margaret - Prose & Criticism; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology; Fiction / Folklore
First sentence: Now that I’m dead I know everything.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A Low Art; title: The Chorus Line: A Rope-Jumping Rhyme; title: My Childhood; title: The Chorus Line: Kiddie Mourn, A Lament by the Maids; title: Asphodel; title: My Marriage; title: The Scar; title: The Chorus Line: If I Was a Princess, A Popular Tune; title: The Trusted Cackle-Hen; title: The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll; title: Helen Ruins My Life; title: Waiting; title: The Chorus Line: The Wily Sea Captain, A Sea Shanty; title: The Suitors Stuff Their Faces; title: The Shroud; title: Bad Dreams; title: The Chorus Line: Dreamboats, A Ballad; title: News of Helen; title: Yelp of Joy; title: Slanderous Gossip; title: The Chorus Line: The Perils of Penelope, A Drama; title: Helen Takes a Bath; title: Odysseus and Telemachus Snuff the Maids; title: The Chorus Line: An Anthropology Lecture; title: Heart of Flint; title: The Chorus Line: The Trial of Odysseus, as Videotaped by the Maids; title: Home Life in Hades; title: The Chorus Line: We're Walking Behind You, A Love Song; title: Envoi; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgements