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  • Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
    Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
    By Jeanette Winterson

    . . Winterson’s embrace of the mythic landscape is evident in her rich imagery . . . cathartic . . . this short novel fulfills a number of the criteria myth is meant to embody” —The New York Times Book Review

  • Weight
    Weight
    By Jeanette Winterson

    " Lucasta Miller, Guardian "Winterson plays with the ancient tale with promiscuous wit and exuberant fantasy ... [she] produces some exquisitely filmic prose that is almost mythopoetic.

  • Weight
    By Jeanette Winterson

    But maybe the gods don't know the answer. Or maybe the right questions were never asked before . . . It's time the story was retold. With wit and verve, Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the space age, and sets him free at last.

  • Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
    Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
    By Jeanette Winterson

    The Myth of Atlas and Heracles Jeanette Winterson. All that ire can see is only a fraction of tbe universe. Some matter is detectable only by its gravitational ejjects on tbe rotntion of galaxies. Tbis is called dark matter and no one ...

  • Weight
    Weight
    By Jeanette Winterson

    Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world, but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all?