Metamorphica, Zachary Mason
Metamorphica, Zachary Mason
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Metamorphica

Author: Zachary Mason

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot, Kevin Kenerly, Robertson Dean, Will Damron, Xe Sands, Amy Landon, Kate Reading, Robin Miles, various narrators

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/10/2018


Synopsis

A brilliant and daring novel that reimagines Ovid’s MetamorphosesIn the tradition of his bestselling debut novel The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason’s Metamorphica transforms Ovid’s epic poem of endless transformation. It reimagines the stories of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Galatea, Midas and Atalanta, and strings them together like the stars in constellations―even Ovid becomes a story. It’s as though the ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino. Metamorphica is an archipelago in which to linger for a while; it reflects a little light from the morning of the world.

About Zachary Mason

Zachary Mason is a computer scientist and the author of The Lost Books of the Odyssey and Void Star. He lives in California.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

About Kevin Kenerly

Kevin Kenerly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, earned a BA at Olivet College. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has acted in more than twenty seasons, playing dozens of roles.

About Robertson Dean

Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.

About Will Damron

William Dameron is an award-winning blogger, memoirist, essayist, and author of The Lie, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Times (UK), Telegraph, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Salon, HuffPost, Oprah Daily, Saranac Review, Literary Hub, Hippocampus Magazine, and in the book Fashionably Late: Gay, Bi & Trans Men Who Came Out Later in Life. He is an IT director for a global economic consulting firm, where he educates users on the perils of social engineering in cybersecurity. William and his husband split their time between the coast of southern Maine and Florida. For more information, visit the author at www.williamdameron.com.

About Xe Sands

Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art, including recordings of the Nightwalkers series from Jaquelyn Frank. She has received several honors, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and a coveted Audie Award, and she was named Favorite Debut Romance Narrator of 2011 in the Romance Audiobooks poll.

About Amy Landon

Amy Landon, Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a voice artist and classically trained actress with numerous film, television, and off-Broadway stage credits. Her voice can also be heard on many television and radio commercials. She has an easy facility with dialects, which she also coaches and teaches, and she is happy to find her lifelong obsession with books pairing up with her acting and vocal work. Her narration of Texts from Jane Eyre placed as a finalist for the Audie Award for Best Humor Narration in 2016.

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

About Robin Miles

Robin Miles is a veteran of Broadway, classical plays, television, film, and audiobooks. An AudioFile Golden Voice, she has won numerous Earphones Awards, ALA Awards, and Audie Award nominations.


Reviews

Review first posted on Fantasy Literature: Zachary Mason, who retold Homer’s story of the wanderings of Odysseus in his well-received 2007 debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, takes on Ovid‘s epic narrative poem Metamorphoses in his latest work, Metamorphica (2018). Mason distills Metamorphose......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

This was a very pleasant surprise. Now, I should admit I'm already a big fan of Ovid's Metamorphoses, so when I learned that there was a briefer, even distilled version of them, I got extremely enthusiastic. The trend toward retellings of old myths has been an overall positive thing. I've read a few t......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

43. Metamorphica (audio) by Zachary Mason Readers: Bronson Pinchot, Kevin Kenerly, Robertson Dean, Will Damron, Xe Sands, Amy Landon, Kate Reading, Robin Miles published: 2018 format: 6:31 Libby audiobook (~181 pages, 304 pages in hardcover) acquired: Library listened: Aug 8-16 rating: 2½ A very recent pro......more

Goodreads review by Bandit

Oh, I'm the first one to review this, how lovely. Greek mythology, mythology in general really, is a theme I love so much, I’ll revisit in in just about any form. This was, admittedly, something of an experimental retelling/reimagining of some of the beloved myths. I wasn’t familiar with the author’......more

Goodreads review by Jenia

I received an ARC of this book from the publishing company Farrar, Straus and Giroux. After having read Mason's previous book — a collection of reimaginings of the Odyssey — last year, I was very excited for his "follow-up" reimaginings of further Greco-Roman myths. Metamorphica didn't disappoint. Met......more


Quotes

“Both soaring and deep, this dazzling narrative creates a fictional universe of myth that transcends time itself.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Witty, playful, moving, and tirelessly inventive…Mason has found a supple, lyrical voice in these pages that captures the spirit of the original Odyssey and at the same time feels freshly contemporary.” New York Times on The Lost Books of the Odyssey

“A subtle, inventive, and moving meditation on the nature of story.” John Banville, Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, on The Lost Books of the Odyssey

“Jubilant in execution. Perverse and irreverent.” Boston Globe on The Lost Books of the Odyssey

“Marvelous…The stories’ wonderful variety reflects the cunning, resourceful character of Odysseus himself.” Wall Street Journal on The Lost Books of the Odyssey

“Impressive…Readers familiar with Greek mythology will appreciate Mason’s mournful riffs highlighting the darker recesses of mythology.” Publishers Weekly

“Mason, who debuted by reimagining the travels and travails of Odysseus…now reimagines Ovid’s epic poem about ceaseless change. Narcissus, Pygmalion and Galatea, Midas and Atalanta, even Ovid himself are all seen in a bright new light.” Library Journal