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By: Jeanette Winterson
Edition: 1st American ed
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Atlas (Greek deity) -- Fiction; Heracles (Greek mythology) -- Fiction; Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Heracles, charged with the task of stealing the golden apples of life from the Garden of Hesperides, seeks out Atlas and offers to shoulder the world temporarily if he will bring him the fruit. Enticed by the prospect of even a short-lived freedom, Atlas agrees and an uneasy partnership is born.