What: Author Jeanette Winterson retells the myth of Atlas and Heracles. A tale of traps and bargains and freedom and trickery! The book is brief, but smart, smart, depressing, and smart.
Comparable to: Weight is part of the The Myths --- a multi-country project of myths retold by critically fawned-over authors, including David Grossman, Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, and Michel Faber.
Opening lines: "The free man never thinks of escape."
Representative quote: "I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject."
How to get it: Buyable, borrowable, Kindle-able.
Connections to previous Wreckage: The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood, is another book in The Myths project. It is also Rec. #298.
Also check out Jeanette Winterson's other (non-myth) books, including Art & Lies (Rec. #349), The Passion (Rec. #66), and The PowerBook (Rec. #302).
[Originally posted 1/31/13.]
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