Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles.

Winterson, Jeanette

ISBN 10: 1841957186 / ISBN 13: 9781841957180

Published by Canongate, New York, New York, 2005

About this Item

This copy of "Weight" has been SIGNED by Jeanette Winterson on the title page! From her appearance at the Free Library of Philadelphia on October 22, 2019. In ancient Greek mythology Atlas, a member of the original race of gods called Titans, leads a rebellion against the new deities, the Olympians. For this he incurs divine wrath: the victorious Olympians force Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for eternity. Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forge our own destiny,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles.
• Publisher: Canongate, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841957186
• ISBN 13: 9781841957180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

The author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and The Passion: Written on the Body rewrites the myth of Atlas and Hercules, finding new meaning in this ancient tale. 75,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

Review

"A masterpiece" (Scotland on Sunday)

"Playful, expansive and full of heart" (The Times)

"A touching meditation on the difficult journey to self-knowledge, and also extremely funny, communicating verve and wit" (Guardian)

"Profound and provocative" (Daily Mail)

"Alternatively earthy and mythopoetic, funny, meditative and personal . . . Winterson artfully illustrates the interplay of free will and destiny, desire and responsibility" (Independent on Sunday)

"Weight is a masterpiece . . . Rewrites and reconfirms what fiction is, was, and might become" (Scotland on Sunday)

"Transcendent . . . It's not the weight of her intellect that strikes you but its lightness, an unembarrassed vigour that seems to lead it along a tightrope of sanity" (Herald)

"Winterson's precise prose explores issues of loneliness, responsibility and freedom with clarity and vision, offering the gift of seeing things afresh" (The Good Book Guide)