by Ben Ehrenreich
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This audacious reimagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, gallivants around the world on battleships and attack helicopters, waging wars of conquest. A drinking, drugging crew of ne’er-do-well squatters surrounds Penny, eager for her attention. Even their most eyebrow-raising exploits can’t distract her, though, as she angrily pines for Payne. But when a mysterious man with suspicious origins arrives on the scene, the suitors’ precarious pecking order falls to pieces in the glow of Penny’s newly ignited ardor.
Brutal, playful, sexy, and subversive, The Suitors is a classic of its own kind.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Beauty, 2007-07-17
This is really an extraordinary, beautiful novel. It is not for everyone--it's too smart to be, too strange and strangely wise. I bought this book and half expected it to be some pale shadow of Homer and found instead a whole world, hilarious, sad, absurd. Did I mention beautiful?
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 Would not recommend, 2007-02-23
Although the novel covers some interesting aspects, it fails to captivate its audience. Its barbaric and at times childish remarks fall short of what a good author should provide for his readers.
AVOID THIS BOOK.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 Science Fiction, 2007-01-15
Of all the books I ordered for my son, this was clearly the best written and most interesting conceptually.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 Not for me., 2006-08-20
I guess I'm not Ehrenreich's target audience. I was attracted to this book because of the notion of retelling the Odessey with some modern slant. Great idea. Potential in there. But that's not really what this novel is about. Any links to the Odyessey are purely superficial.
Sorry, but as far as I can tell this novel was written to convince people that the author is terribly clever. It's not about character. Not about plot. The characters never speak like real people. There's an emphasis on sex in a way that seems typical of young men's fantasies. There was a moment not too far in when the author says, with deprecating self-indulgence, that he wishes the story could end here. Thing is, so did I. But it's obvious at that point that he's going to carry on for as long as he can. It's highly self-indulgent stuff, probably best enjoyed by friends of the author. I say it's mostly about the author being clever, but when a whole book seems focussed on convincing you of that it starts to ring a bit hollow.
I know that there are some folks out there that will like this - but not many. I guess it's highly "literary". He does have some great blurbs on the back by authors that I admire. Okay. Maybe I missed something. But if you like a good story about real people stumbling through life... Well this probably isn't the book for you.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
A romance for the end of times, 2006-05-24
The Odyssey and The Suitors are like bookends for Western Civilization. This book is great, actually funny, filled with longing and sadness. It's a sly satire of our world, but infused with hope for life in the wreckage. I also found it truly, surprisingly, romantic. Not a word I usually use in a positive sense. But the Suitors is, really, a romance, an actual romance, for those of us who live in the decidedly unromantic world of freaks and lazy bums and warmongers and drug addicts. It's moving and beautiful. A major achievement.
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