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An edition of Weight (2005)

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Condemned to shoulder the world "for ever" by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden, and it seems they can strike a bargain that might release him . . . Jeanette Winterson asks difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion in her dazzling retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles. Visionary and inventive, believable and intimate, Weight turns the familiar on its head to show us ourselves in a new light.

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Canongate
Language
English
Pages
151

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Subjects
Atlas (Greek deity), Choice (Psychology), Heracles (Greek mythology), Fiction, Literature, Greece, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, religious

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Edinburgh, New York

Table of Contents

I want to tell the story again -- 1
Weight of the World -- 9
Heracles -- 27
Thought-Wasp -- 47
Three Golden Apples -- 63
No Way Out ... -- 77
But Through -- 85
Leaning on the Limits of Myself -- 95
Private Mars -- 101
Hero of the World -- 107
Woof! -- 121
Boundaries -- 129
Desire -- 135
I want to tell the story again-- 147.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6073.I558 W454 2005b, PR6073.I558 W45 2005, PR6073.I558W45 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 151 p. ;
Number of pages
151

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24772326M
Internet Archive
weight00wint
ISBN 10
1841957186, 1841956716, 1841957240
ISBN 13
9781841957180, 9781841956718, 9781841957241
LCCN
2007277280, 2006372871
OCLC/WorldCat
62145586, 62231127

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