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Metamorphica

Zachary Mason (Goodreads Author)

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In the tradition of Zachary Mason’s bestselling first novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey – where he recast episodes from Homer’s masterpiece – Metamorphica now reimagines Ovid’s epic poem of endless transformation, Metamorphoses. Just as the Roman poet reinvigorated the Greek Classical legends 700 years after Homer, so Mason now gives us a radical and exciting renovation ...more

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Mar 21, 2018 Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: greek-mythology, arc

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Zachary Mason, who retold Homer’s story of the wanderings of Odysseus in his well-received 2007 debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, takes on Ovid‘s epic narrative poem Metamorphoses in his latest work, Metamorphica (2018). Mason distills Metamorphoses’ over 250 Greek myths into 53 brief stories, including the tales of Arachne, Daedalus and Icarus, Philemon and Baucis, Narcisssus, Achilles, Midas and many more.

Metamorphica is a loosely connected c Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Zachary Mason, who retold Homer’s story of the wanderings of Odysseus in his well-received 2007 debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, takes on Ovid‘s epic narrative poem Metamorphoses in his latest work, Metamorphica (2018). Mason distills Metamorphoses’ over 250 Greek myths into 53 brief stories, including the tales of Arachne, Daedalus and Icarus, Philemon and Baucis, Narcisssus, Achilles, Midas and many more.

Metamorphica is a loosely connected collection of retold myths more than a cohesive novel with a single plot. It’s rather fragmented, both as a collection and within the stories themselves, many of which are of the “slice of life” variety. But lovely and elegiac writing marks the whole set, and each individual story is a well-crafted jewel, focusing the reader’s eye on its own individual theme and distinct characters. Mason focuses on the characters’ psychology and motivations: pride, revenge, love, greed, power and other timeless passions that resonate in both the ancient Greek settings and in our modern world.

The theme of transformation or metamorphosis also frequently resurfaces in these tales: Scylla was a beautiful sea-nymph who is now a man-eating monster; King Minos spends years pursuing his vanished friend (and prisoner) Daedalus, becoming a changed man in the process. Pentheus, a disciplined man dedicated to his duty, has a life-changing encounter with Dionysos, the god of transformation. When Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to appease Artemis so she will release the winds to allow the Greek armada to sail to Troy, his wife Clytemnestra is never the same afterwards:

… I remembered how he’d washed his hands in a fountain after killing her with the look of a man relieved to have put a difficult task behind him, and my mind ignited like dry kindling; suddenly I was empty of love, and had no purpose in life but to be his undoing. I’ve been waiting a long time for my husband to come home.

Chilling!

Mason reinvents the Greek myths liberally in several of these stories, leading to some unexpected but logical twists. Midas, for example, invents the concept of coin money rather than having the magical power of turning everything he touches into gold. Icarus, with his homemade wings, dashes himself against the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere rather than melting his wings by flying too close to the sun (though his fate in Mason’s story is quite different). Orpheus ventures into the underworld to win his lover Eurydice back from Death, but comes to a surprising realization about her as they climb through the cave toward the sun.

Although these stories are relatively independent of each other, they’re still interrelated, tied together by Greek mythology themes, some recurring characters, and a fascinating star map that visually mirrors the structure of Metamorphica, with each star named after a different story or character in the book. The map is divided into seven sections, with each section and its (imaginary, I’m fairly certain) constellations matching up with a different part of Metamorphica. Mason explains:

Lines are narrative connections which form constellations.

A story’s distance from the center increases with its distance from primordial time. The outermost ring is the end of the age of myth, which is the aftermath of the Trojan War or shortly thereafter.

I strongly recommend Metamorphica to any student or fan of Greek mythology, or readers who appreciate lyrical writing and fantasy that tends toward the somber and introspective.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, for review. Thank you!! ...more

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Jan 19, 2019 Emer (A Little Haze) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: hellas, ancient-civilisations-mythology, reviewed, read2019, adult-fiction, 2stars

This is a stunning book. So beautifully lyrical. Gorgeous prose... But I was left cold. I think I love Ovid's Metamorphoses too much to let my heart love this too. Such a shame really because I was very much looking forward to this. And I guess the icing on the cake of disappointment was the retelling of Orpheus in the Underworld. Orpheus and Eurydice is my favourite ever Greek myth. I read it first when I was a really young girl and it just touched my soul in only the way a soul can be touched ...more

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Aug 20, 2018 Daniel Chaikin rated it it was ok · review of another edition

43. Metamorphica (audio) by Zachary Mason
Readers: Bronson Pinchot, Kevin Kenerly, Robertson Dean, Will Damron, Xe Sands, Amy Landon, Kate Reading, Robin Miles
published: 2018
format: 6:31 Libby audiobook (~181 pages, 304 pages in hardcover)
acquired: Library
listened: Aug 8-16
rating: 2½

A very recent promising release with some super positive professional reviews, a beautiful hardcover (which I've only seen as pictures), and, for audio, an elaborate audiobook cast with several very good readers. I fe ...more

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Jul 22, 2018 Jenia rated it really liked it

I received an ARC of this book from the publishing company Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

After having read Mason's previous book — a collection of reimaginings of the Odyssey — last year, I was very excited for his "follow-up" reimaginings of further Greco-Roman myths. Metamorphica didn't disappoint.

Metamorphica is based on the myths found in Ovid's Metamorphoses — although not every myth found there, as the original has 15 books worth of content. Still, in the 53 short stories we get to meet charac ...more

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Sep 24, 2020 Ann-Marie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a review of the audio book version.
I completely lost myself in this re-imagining of the mostly Ovidian myths of Greece and Rome by Zachary Mason. His imagery led me into flights of fancy, to use the old chestnut. I found myself stopping the recording to focus on a phrase or two, just to see where it took me.
These are not the myths I am familiar with, other than the story of Icarus and Midas. Most of them got rushed presentations back in my middle school English class, and I was a solid ...more

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May 09, 2018 Bandit rated it liked it · review of another edition

Oh, I'm the first one to review this, how lovely. Greek mythology, mythology in general really, is a theme I love so much, I’ll revisit in in just about any form. This was, admittedly, something of an experimental retelling/reimagining of some of the beloved myths. I wasn’t familiar with the author’s work prior to this and the description was fairly vague, but what this ended up being is a relatively short collection of myths separated by pantheon divisions and told from a psychological perspect Oh, I'm the first one to review this, how lovely. Greek mythology, mythology in general really, is a theme I love so much, I’ll revisit in in just about any form. This was, admittedly, something of an experimental retelling/reimagining of some of the beloved myths. I wasn’t familiar with the author’s work prior to this and the description was fairly vague, but what this ended up being is a relatively short collection of myths separated by pantheon divisions and told from a psychological perspective. So basically, while the facts of the stories may be known from other various sources, these versions deal with the emotional and mental states of its characters. And, of course, some of the stories also change the facts around also. The author stated he wanted to create a mythology book he wish he’d found and I suppose at that he succeeds. This was certainly different. And at times quite good. The stories vary in lengths and quality, the longest ones tending to be the best. The shortest ones are mere sketches, but with the word count increasing there come the real stories, the real flights of imagination. The language is lovely, but leans toward the poetic quite heavily. Not quite for me, but the beauty of it is impossible to ignore and certain turns of phrase or imagery were simply stunning. And I liked what the author did to some of the well known myths, quite ingenious and in a way more plausible (not that that’s a requirement of mythology), but the reimagining of Orpheus takes into account the realities of infatuation, Icarus’s flight is circumscribed by laws of physics, Troy is fought over by more personable less iconoclastic characters and for considerably less romantic reasons and so on. Changes, changes, Ovid would appreciate this certainly. So something of a mixed bag, inventive, clever takes on classics wrapped in the dreamy gauze of a narrative. Intriguing though and fans of Greek mythology would find much to enjoy here, plus it’s a quick read and a pleasant way to dream the morning away. Thanks Netgalley. ...more

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Sep 08, 2018 B. Rule rated it really liked it · review of another edition

These are haunting, elegiac pieces that use Greek and Roman myths as writing prompts. As in his earlier works, Mason is concerned with modern, Borgesian ideas of identity, paradox, and surreal desolation, and he pumps those themes back into the original stories, sometimes filling them with new life, and sometimes bursting the seams of the original. I wouldn't say all of the pieces are successful, and some of them are too slight to add much to Ovid. But they're all gracefully written and it's nic ...more

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Sep 20, 2018 Niki rated it liked it

not bad, not bad at all, but a little confusing at times - I'm a real fan of mythology, classic or other - generally I prefer when it's written like stephen fry's mythos, with a lot p tongue in cheek - as I said, not bad at all, a bit too serious maybe ...more

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Dec 14, 2018 Yasmin ✨ rated it it was ok

Shelves: cover-love, so-boring, books-i-own, only-finished-bc-im-not-a-quitter, not-as-good-as-id-hoped

Metamorphica contains retellings of Greek and Roman myths, mostly focussing on Ovid's Metamorphoses. I had read most of the original myths before and even translated a lot of them myself. Where this book falls flat for me is how it offers a new view on each myth, but one that doesn't really make a point or even make sense. I feel like when you reimagine or rewrite a myth there should be a point to your changes. A reason. A different meaning you want to offer.

The changes made no sense to me. At t Metamorphica contains retellings of Greek and Roman myths, mostly focussing on Ovid's Metamorphoses. I had read most of the original myths before and even translated a lot of them myself. Where this book falls flat for me is how it offers a new view on each myth, but one that doesn't really make a point or even make sense. I feel like when you reimagine or rewrite a myth there should be a point to your changes. A reason. A different meaning you want to offer.

The changes made no sense to me. At the end of the book there's a part called 'notes' where the author gives a couple of lines of explanation on a chapter. Turns out each chapter is only ''oh, what if...''. They're basically musings of the author on the myths. Sure, you can write about that, but it wasn't interesting and after each chapter I was unsure of what I'd just read. They're a bunch of short stories, but with no beginning, middle or end. They're too much like the original myths to offer a refreshing perspective or new insights, but at the same time they have lost the the core and strength of the original. Like I said, this book feels empty to me. There a words that form a sentence and sentences that form a chapter, but that's it.

The writing also made it very hard to get invested in this book. Honestly, the amount of times Mason uses 'and then he... and then they' is completely mind-blowing. Example:

''There was a moment of pain and then he didn't want to move. The grey sky through the black branches seemed unreal and remote - then they jostled him and he saw the wet sand inches from his eyes. He felt what might have been teeth, and then he felt what might have been a knife, and then he was just cold. (...) Then the women were gone, their cries receding into the woods,''

This is how the whole book is written. Not pleasant to read at all. The style is very lyrical as well. At first I thought it was pretty, but have you ever thought that you were reading, but when you get to the end of the passage you realize that none of the words actually got through to you? The style is so pleasing that it's empty, meaningless. There's so much wandering, gazing and floating going on in this book. Waves crashing, snow falling, fire burning, vague and cryptical conversations. I don't want to read 300 pages of that. The whole book is a bunch of adjectives and descriptions. There's no action or fire in the writing; there's no actual feeling in it. The book just seemed to drag on and on.

The chapters that contained myths I didn't know were incredibly confusing and I imagine the book is unreadable if you don't know anything or even much about Greek or Roman mythology. Each chapter is about a different person and the chapters have nothing to do with each other. There's no natural 'flow' from one chapter to another. But they are so vague that they can't stand on their own either. If you don't know the original myth, you will have zero understanding of what's going on. Even the chapters of which I did know the original story often made no sense.

The two stars are because it wasn't horrible, I guess. The writing is pretty, though not pleasant to read for 300 pages. At first each chapter was nice enough, but after a while they all blend together and become meaningless. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. ...more

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Sep 08, 2018 Amy rated it liked it

The lyricism doesn’t always hit the mark and occasionally falls painfully flat, but I like what he does with Narcissus and Clytemnestra and this exchange between Minos and Daedalus:
“Then I’ll build you a monument in stone,a colossal statue to stand by the harbor, and every man who sails into Knossos will see your face and know your name. Your fame will be written in granite.”
“My face ,” he says, “is a face like any other, and my name is a noise with no meaning.”

Best in small doses.

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Aug 14, 2020 Boy Blue rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, magic-realism, lit-fic, shorts

Greek myths are brilliant, what else would you expect from stories that have lasted millennia. However, Mason's telling will either enthrall or bore you depending on your stylistic tastes. It really comes down to whether you like his lyricism and turn of phrase. I feel he's kept the essence of all the stories while still leaving them set in ancient history. Of particular note is the transformation of the Midas touch into the creation of a monetary system, Persephone's curse into an eternal cycle ...more

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Oct 22, 2020 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, favorites, myths-adaptations

Greek myth, in some form, has lasted thousands of years and even now still holds an intense fascination. They really are seamless, timeless stories. Mason expertly crafted slightly new, subtle retellings of some of Ovid's famous tales, and at the heart of them all is transformation and change. The style is similar to vignette, all very short, brief, but impactful. I really enjoyed the imaginative yet subtle play within each of the stories, the gods present but also floating through each page, ab ...more

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May 16, 2019 Tom Kenis rated it it was amazing

A poetic (f)re(e)telling of the Greek myths.
One of the best reads this year.

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Dec 02, 2019 Phebe rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: myths

All sparks, no fire.

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Jun 11, 2018 Emmeline rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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A beautiful transfiguration-- full of sharp, fecund grace.

The author's metamorphosis of Ovid's poem is sensuous, visceral, raw, joyful, fluid. Ancient mythologies echo of Borges and Calvino, and become timelessly postmodern. While Mason's first celebrated novel "The Lost Books of the Odyssey" featured predominantly masculine voices, Metamorphica comes alive-- sings, peals, whispers, keens-- with female experience and narrative.

It's a nuanced, lyrical and above all, heartfelt work-- a novel to ...more

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Jan 30, 2019 Jim Puskas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: whimsy, folklore-mythology

I have this image of Zachary Mason strolling about in a gallery of bright shiny toys, examining the hundreds of tales that Ovid left behind to amuse, edify and confound us over the past two millennia. In Mason's playful hands those stories and the gods, demigods and humans who populate them become gambling-bones, fiddle-sticks, golden coins to be tossed, to discover where they might land, what new adventures they might set loose. Some of them turn in upon themselves, becoming swallowed up by the ...more

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Aug 06, 2018 Zachary Houle rated it it was ok

What seems to be a new trend among authors is taking stories that are in the public domain and rewriting them with a modern sensibility. Daniel Mallory Ortberg did it a few months ago with his book The Merry Spinster, which refashioned old fairy tales with new twists on them. Now, Zachary Mason has turned in a book based on old Greek mythology and the writing of Ovid called Metamorphica. It’s not the first time he has done such a thing — his earlier book, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, was based ...more

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Apr 04, 2019 Naomi Ruth rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-fiction, want-to-own, fav-authors

I picked this up at the library to read the story about Dionysos and was not planning on reading the whole thing. I read the first couple of pages and knew I would read every. last. word. I did not devour this book; this book devoured me. It was incredibly surreal. It was nothing I could ever write and yet... There were moments when I felt like I was reading something from a future Me. The stories wrapped themselves around me and put me in this fugue state. I loved the story of Thetis and how ma ...more

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May 06, 2019 Aaminah Ackerman rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favourites, books-by-men, fiction

This book...

There are the stables where I lay with three slaves in succession the night after Agamemnon's departure; regrettably, I didn’t conceive, and so lost my chance to put a bastard on his throne. There’s the white hemisphere of Agamemnon’s father’s tomb, where I seduced Aegisthus, the singer left behind to entertain me; I got him drunk, first – the done thing, I believe – but even drunk he said he could not possible, that it was a matter of loyalty, of honour, for Agamemnon had treated
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Jul 25, 2018 Olivier rated it it was amazing

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A stunningly audacious re-imagining of ancient myths. A sea-goddess is freed once, but was twice imprisoned; the mirror of words becomes the mirror of persons; and a fierce king rages against his final foe.

Mason's masterpiece of a novel has been dubbed Borgesian by others before me, but in my mind it far exceeds the work of the Argentine writer. Characters' thought-frames are etched out of poems, sketched with a grace I have rarely encountered before. Here the stories speak not a word too many; ...more

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Nov 10, 2018 Maggie Chen rated it it was amazing

Mason has been accused of falling into the fashionable habit of 're-writing a classic book with a modern sensibility'. In fact, there's not a scrap of 'modern sensibility' here, which really would be a sin. Mason's drawing from somewhere else. I think this book is a work of genius. ...more

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Sep 21, 2018 Debs rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fairy-tale-retellings, 2018

I really enjoyed parts of this one. There were a couple in particular that I think would do well expanded into larger pieces and/or theater works.

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Apr 17, 2019 Nelli SilveryMoon rated it it was amazing

My favourite is Narcissus

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Oct 12, 2020 Fraser Kinnear rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: platonism, math, sexuality, greece, rome

Myth should be essential, but often seems schematic. Less a literature of fundamental power than that literature’s echo. The project of Metamorphica is to write the mythology I wish I’d found, much as Ovid did, moving lightly through the ancient sources, taking up what he liked, and reinventing it, as I’ve done with this book.

It’s a time-honored law of Hollywood that movie sequels financially perform better at the box office, simply because audiences are familiar with the characters. There are o

Myth should be essential, but often seems schematic. Less a literature of fundamental power than that literature’s echo. The project of Metamorphica is to write the mythology I wish I’d found, much as Ovid did, moving lightly through the ancient sources, taking up what he liked, and reinventing it, as I’ve done with this book.

It’s a time-honored law of Hollywood that movie sequels financially perform better at the box office, simply because audiences are familiar with the characters. There are of course all sorts of inherent storytelling advantages, such as not needing so much character development, so it’s strange how often those sequels turn out worse than the original. Mason seems to be employing the same theory for Metamorphica. And while Borges, the short-story standard setter, normally avoids this crutch, I think I like Mason’s stories more!

What’s particularly cool about Metamorphica is that the themes the stories explore are limited to themes I can imagine Ovid or other classical writers understanding and being interested in. For example, a particularly philosophical story about calligraphy explores the implications of experiencing Platonic idealism the same way a great sci-fi book might explore characters facing the AI singularity. My favorite story entails Dedalus finding transcendence in the discovery of irrational numbers and contemplating their infinitesimal nature (a calamity that ended Pythagoras’s school and killed its discoverer). The story contains this wonderful passage that reminds me of the album cover of Kid A:

But as the first numbers pass his lips, he sees that his answer is inexact, and adds a digit to amend it. But even then, an error remains, so he adds another. And though the error dwindles, it doesn’t disappear even after the tenth, the thousand, the ten-thousandth revision. The line seems to rush toward him. And with great clarity, he sees the scarred, prismatic mountains of the sand grains, as the digits surge by… He struggles at first, as the number pours over him. And is distantly aware the passing of the millionth, and then the billionth digits. And still the progression roars on. As the initial panic subsides, he reflects that the torrent of random numbers is as meaningless, and as comforting, as rain pattering a rooftop. And the digits blow past unremarked. And his thoughts become a grey blur, as his old life comes to seem remote, like a ghost hastening off into evening.

Of course, my rule doesn’t hold entirely. That quote goes on to explore ideas of language encoding into numbers, with a nod to Borges’s labyrinth. Also, I don’t think the Pythagoreans, or even mythological Greeks like Dedalus, thought in a base 10 decimal system.

One of the few books I would read again.
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Feb 19, 2020 Luis rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was not quite as good for me as The Lost Books of the Odyssey, but still showcases Mason’s ability to be emotionally devastating on love, death, and obsession in small bites. Some of the stories will leave you staggered, which is much of what you can hope for from something like this.

Relative to Lost Books, two big things stuck out. The first was simply my fault - I’m not as familiar with Ovid (though I am with the Greek myths more generally) so _for me_ the book didn’t benefit as much as L ...more

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Mar 22, 2020 Lynette rated it really liked it

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3.75/5 stars! Definitely in my Greek mythology mood lately. I love how this author could make smooth transitions into different characters. The first half of the book really showed that well. However! I was NOT a fan of him completely changing stories. Like with Daphne. The whole point of the story was she turned herself into a tree to escape Apollo’s advances. The Gods were ruthless savages at times, and at times it seems Mason was trying to sugar coat it. I also didn’t like how he would change ...more

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Apr 25, 2019 Kim Lockhart rated it really liked it

If you love ancient Greek mythology, as I do, this sultry, richly textured reinterpretation of Ovid's writing will thrill you. The quality of the storytelling improves steadily, as the book progresses, and the author's endnotes are enlightening.

Mason updates the mythology by ascribing greater courage, selflessness, and integrity to the female characters than in most reimagined modern works. He paints both mortal and immortal males as petulant, passionate, and prideful, though vanity seems to be ...more

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Jul 14, 2020 Kathy Leland rated it it was amazing

Shelves: greatest-fiction, fiction

I love this kind of book -- Mason bases his tales on Ovid's Metamorphoses, but then soars from there into all the other possible corners and unexplored edges of the stories, adding depth, creating interesting possibilities, exploring possible plots and consequences in fascinating ways. His stories are often short, evocative, and always in the spirit of the Greek and Roman originals. Mason is also a very accomplished writer with a true appreciation for language and evocative detail. I am looking ...more

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Sep 22, 2018 Alec rated it it was amazing

Mason derives fresh perspectives from centuries old myths, kindling (a favorite word of his) a new flame at the altar of Ovid. His telling captures emotions of loss, jubilee, and of course, transformation in the form of short stories that feel at once punctual and sweeping. For someone not totally familiar with Ovid, reviewing the older's work after Mason's is a unique experience. ...more

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Jan 23, 2019 Kathy Piselli rated it really liked it

My two favorites were Philemon & Baucis' story of never being parted and Herakles' slaying of the Nemean lion in which he devolves into the ancient monster he'd slain. The only thing that marred this book for me were the occassional editing mistakes (born, not borne, along - a field sewn, not sown, with salt). Bring back human proofreaders! ...more

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