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The Suitors

by Ben Ehrenreich

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Counterpoint Press (2006), Hardcover

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A modern-day re-telling of The Odyssey.

At first, it seemed this was a cross between Francesca Lia Block and Tom Robbins, which theoretically could be very fun. But there was something very dark and oppressive about this, clever but unfeeling. I didn’t connect with the characters and the story seemed to be trying too hard to be non-linear at times. I can see how some people would really get into it, but I really didn’t. ( )
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This audacious reimagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, gallivants around the world on battleships and attack helicopters, waging wars of conquest. A drinking, drugging crew of ne’er-do-well squatters surrounds Penny, eager for her attention. Even their most eyebrow-raising exploits can’t distract her, though, as she angrily pines for Payne. But when a mysterious man with suspicious origins arrives on the scene, the suitors’ precarious pecking order falls to pieces in the glow of Penny’s newly ignited ardor.

Brutal, playful, sexy, and subversive, The Suitors is a classic of its own kind.

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