This well written work of non-fiction is about the homecoming of warriors like Odysseus after the Trojan War and the brutal impact that war has upon their being when they return home. The writer is a VA staff psychiatrist at an outpatient clinic in Boston and he knows his Homer. Shay saw that the...
the name Lawrence had given his motorcycle], “We are going to hurry” … and thereupon laid back my ears like a rabbit, and galloped down the road…. It seemed to me that sixty-five miles an hour was a fitting pace … but often we were ninety for two or three miles on end, with old B. trumpeting ha h...