Home is the Hunter: A Comedy in Two Acts

Authors: Macinnes, Helen
Publisher: Titan
BISAC/Subject: DRA000000, PER011000, DRA003000
ISBN: 9781781164334, Related ISBNs: 1781163316, 1781164339, 9781781163313, 9781781164334
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 224,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: After years of war and still more years of travelling, Ulysses finally returns to his beloved Ithaca, penniless and alone. Rather than the joyous welcome he had hoped for, he finds his palace full of quarrelling suitors, all scheming to possess his wife and his land. Meanwhile the beautiful Penelope is speculating on why it should take any man seven years to get home. As the couple find their way back to each other, Homer becomes increasingly irritated that they are not adhering to the plot of his new book, and Athena, the Goddess of Reason, has had enough of irrational mortal behaviour.

Finally, what really happened on that historic day in 1177 BC can be revealed…
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