false 25884864 81537 15046 1841957186 9781841957180 114 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166669774m/15046.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166669774s/15046.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15046.Weight_The_Myth_of_Atlas_and_Heracles 3.85 762 Weight is ‘I want to tell the story again.’ My work is full of cover versions. I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently. In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text. Weight moves far away from the simple story of Atlas’s punishment and his temporary relief when Heracles takes the world off his shoulders. I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom, too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere.” -- from Jeanette Winterson’s Foreword to Weight</div>]]> 9399 3.86 24176 2254 2005 5 0 false Sun Jun 29 22:22:24 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 22:22:29 -0700 2008