Lost on the Blood Dark Sea is not just a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey. It's a re-imagining of the ten long, murderous years it took Odysseus to return to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan War. Whereas Homer's epic is told solely from the point of view of Odysseus, many voices swell the choir of this offering, some, like Elpenor, who were characters in the original, and some who are invented for the purpose of giving Cooperman's collection...
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