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  Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Paperback) By (author) Jeanette Winterson

  

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  Short Description for WeightCondemned 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. This work addresses difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion in the myth of Atlas and Heracles.
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  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
  • Published: 06 July 2006
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: Myth & Legend Told As Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781841957753 ISBN 10: 1841957755
  • Sales rank: 48,791

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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.