xo Orpheus : fifty new myths
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xxiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse-his cremains in a bullet. Here, in compelling guise, are your favorite mythological figures-Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog-alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, and other traditions. Featuring talkative goats, a cat lady, a bird woman, a beer-drinking ogre, and a squid who falls in love with the sun, these are stories of boundless wonder and invention. If "xo" signals a goodbye, then xo Orpheus is a goodbye toan old way of mythmaking, a book that boldly heralds a new beginning for one of the world's oldest literary traditions"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bernheimer, K., Van den Berg, L., Williams, J., Murray, S., Carey, E., Chapman, M., B., D., Dymott, E., Jones, S., Bender, A., Currie, R., Marra, A., Raffel, D., Meloy, M., Vlautin, W., Ochsner, G., Miller, M., Percy, B., Pearlman, E., LaValle, V. D., Loory, B., McCracken, E., Sheehan, A., Evans, E., Gladstone, M., Heti, S., Braffet, K., Mason, Z., Lee, M. J., Schneiderman, D., Rahman, I., Julavits, H., Yamashita, K. T., Straub, E., Straub, P., Wilson, K., Draeger, M., Hussein, A., Davis, K., Bassmann, L., Reed, K., Monson, A., Olmedo, D., Nunez, S., Skibsrud, J., Aldiss, B. W. 1., Blackman, S., Hunt, L., Châteaureynaud, G. O., King, O., & Muñoz, M. (2013). xo Orpheus: fifty new myths . Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kate. Bernheimer et al.. 2013. Xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths. Penguin Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kate. Bernheimer et al.. Xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths Penguin Books, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bernheimer, Kate., et al. Xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths Penguin Books, 2013.

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