"With brilliant prose, a rich body of authorial knowledge, and a remarkable imagination, Zachary Mason has fashioned a book that might have been one of the classics of world literature, if only it actually dated from the time of Homer. Following the structure of the ancient Greek classic, The Lost Books of the Odyssey features alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original, richly carrying off the illusion of being the lost ur-text of Homer's masterpiece. An elegantly written, frequently beautiful novel, justifying comparison with the great postmodern fictive hoaxes of Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Coover. This is a one-of-a-kind destined to become a classic in its own right."--BOOK JACKET.