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Author Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- author

Title Weight / Jeanette Winterson
Published Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2005
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Description 1 online resource (125 pages)
Series The myths
Contents COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; I WANT TO TELL THE STORY AGAIN; WEIGHT OF THE WORLD; HERACLES; THOUGHT-WASP; THREE GOLDEN APPLES; NO WAY OUT . . .; BUT THROUGH; LEANING ON THE LIMITS OF MYSELF; PRIVATE MARS; HERO OF THE WORLD; WOOF!; BOUNDARIES; DESIRE; I WANT TO TELL THE STORY AGAIN
Summary The Titan Atlas has led a failed rebellion against the gods of Olympus and is condemned to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for eternity. Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas' story into the twenty-first century, with thorny questions about the nature of choice and coercion and about how we forge our own destiny
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 14, 2014)
Subject Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- Fiction.
Atlas (Greek deity) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1921834595 (electronic bk.)
9781921834592 (electronic bk.)