American Odyssey - Softcover

Clark, R. Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938288106 ISBN 13: 9781938288104

Publisher: Terra Nova Books, 2013

Discharged from the Marines after three tours in Afghanistan, Leo Lewis is on his way home -- like another warrior 3,000 years ago. And as Leo crosses the country, the challenges faced by Homer's greatest hero confront him as well. Cyclops, Circe, Scylla, Charybdis, and more all are waiting for him in dramatic, enchanting, frightening, and funny adventures reimagined through the lens of today's realities.

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About the Author:

R. Douglas Clark is a small business entrepreneur, father, baseball fan, and musician who grew up in Colorado and Oregon and now lives on a raspberry farm in Chimayó, New Mexico. After 25 years as a Eugene, Oregon, business owner, he moved in 2002 to Chimayó, where he ran the local Boys and Girls Club before retiring a second time and shifting his main focus to fiction�€”resulting now in his first novel, American Odyssey.

Review:

Clark's writing in this spirited novella is sly and sublime; and you can't top his cast of characters. -- Robert Mayer, Author of The Origin of Sorrow, and eight other books

Combine the American legend of the great road trip with the Greek epic of Ulysses returning from the Trojan War and you get an original: a novel about an Afghanistan War veteran using the byroads of the continent to heal his horrors and deal with his demons.

--Wally Gordon

Having finished his tour as a Marine in Afghanistan, Leo Lewis sets out on a road trip across America back to his wife and a young son he has never met, but Nausicaa and Circe set out to lure him, and the Greek gods watch for ways to help or hinder him.

--Claudia Hauer, Professor St. Johns College

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