TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernheimer,Kate
TI  - XO Orpheus: fifty new myths 
SN  - 0143122428 (pbk.)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Mythology, Greek
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Introduction; Kate Bernheimer--; Anthropogenesis And Norse Creation Myth; Anthropogenesis, Or: How to Make a Family; Laura van den Berg --; Argos; Argos; Joy Williams --; Bacchantes; The; Sisters; Sabina Murray --; Baucis And Philemon; Sawdust; Edward Carey --; Brownies; Friend Robin; Maile Chapman --; The; Caliph Of One Thousand And One Nights; The; Veiled Prophet; David B. --; Candaules And Gyges, As Told By Herodotus; Henry and Booboo; Elanor Dymott --; Coyote Myths; Modern Coyote; Shane Jones --; Cronos; Devourings; Aimee Bender --; Daedalus; Labyrinth; Ron Currie, Jr. --; Daedalus; The; Last Flight of Daedalus; Anthony Marra --; Daphne; Daphne; Dawn Raffel --; Demeter; Demeter; Maile Meloy --; Demeter And Persephone; Kid Collins; Willy Vlautin --; Eris; Sleeping Beauty; Gina Ochsner --; Galatea And Pygmalion; Galatea; Madeline Miller --; God And Satan; The; Hand; Manuel Munoz --; Golem And Pygmalion; The; Dummy; Benjamin Percy --; Hades; The; Girl with the Talking Shadow; Kale Bernheimer --; Human Pentachromats; Wait and See; Edith Pearlman --; Icarus; An; Occasional Icarus; Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud --; Killcrop; Killcrop; Victor LaValle --; The; Kraken; The; Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun; Ben Loory --; Lamia/Child-Eating Demon, Greek; Birdsong from the Radio; Elizabeth McCracken --; The; Lotus Eaters; The; Lotus Eaters; Aurelie Sheehan --; The; Maenads And Sinbad The Sailor; Slaves; Elizabeth Evans --; Mahabharata; Drona's Death; Max Gladstone --; Monsters; So Many-Headed Gates; Sheila Heti --; Edith Hamilton's Mythology; The; Status of Myth; Kelly Braffet and Owen King --; Narcissus; Narcissus; Zachary Mason --; Odysseus; Back to Blandon; Michael Jeffrey Lee --; Odysseus; The; Story I Am Speaking to You Now; Davis Schneiderman --; Oedipus; The; Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt; Imad Rahman --; Orpheus And Eurydice; Dark Resort; Heidi Julavits --; Paradise; Mystery Spot: 95065; Karen Tei Yamashita --; Persephone; Lost Lake; Emma Straub and Peter Straub --; Phaeton, From Ovid's Metamorphoses; What Wants My Son; Kevin Wilson --; Poseidon; Thousand; Laird Hunt --; Post-Apocalypse; Belle-Medusa; Manuela Draeger --; Raja Rasalu; The; Swan's Wife; Aamer Hussein --; Sedna, Inuit; Sanna; Kathryn Davis --; Sirin; Madame Liang; Lutz Bassmann --; Sisyphus; Sissy; Kit Reed --; The; Strix; In a Structure Simulating an Owl; Ander Monson --; Tezcatlipoca; Cat's Eye; Donaji Olmedo --; Transformation; Betrayal; Sigrid Nunez --; Trojan Horse; A; Horse, a Vine; Johanna Skibsrud --; The; Unconscious; The; Hungers of an Old Language; Brian Aldiss --; Zeus And Europa, After The D'Aulaires; The; White Horse; Sarah Blackman
N2  - Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog--alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, Aztec, and other traditions"--Page 4 of cover
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