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- An odyssey / by Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam,1960-author.;
"From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost, comes a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading -- and reliving -- Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth -- and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together -- first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages -- it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to deeply echo The Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel, and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and emotional insight, An odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-; Mendelsohn, Jay.; Homer.; College teachers; Scientists; Fathers and sons;
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- Freaky tales [videorecording] / by Boden, Anna,film director.; Ellis, Jay,1981-actor.; Fleck, Ryan,1976-film director.; Hanks, Tom,actor.; Pascal, Pedro,actor.; Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.),publisher.;
Pedro Pascal, Tom Hanks, Jay Ellis, Ben Mendelsohn, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Jack Champion, Dominique Thorne.An NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teenage punks, neo-Nazis and a debt collector embark on a collision course in 1987 Oakland, California.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for slurs, drug use, sexual content, language throughout, and strong bloody violence.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Crime films.; Anthology films.; Basketball players; Collecting of accounts; Interpersonal relations; Police corruption; Race relations; Teenage boys; White supremacy movements; Women rap musicians;
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- Freaky tales [videorecording] / by Boden, Anna,film director.; Ellis, Jay,1981-actor.; Fleck, Ryan,1976-film director.; Hanks, Tom,actor.; Pascal, Pedro,actor.; Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.),publisher.;
Pedro Pascal, Tom Hanks, Jay Ellis, Ben Mendelsohn, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Jack Champion, Dominique Thorne.An NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teenage punks, neo-Nazis and a debt collector embark on a collision course in 1987 Oakland, California.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for slurs, drug use, sexual content, language throughout, and strong bloody violence.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; full screen and wide screen formats (1.33:1, 1.85:1, 2.39:1 aspect ratios) ; Dolby TrueHD 7.1, Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Crime films.; Anthology films.; Basketball players; Collecting of accounts; Interpersonal relations; Police corruption; Race relations; Teenage boys; White supremacy movements; Women rap musicians;
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