the Cyclops Loves A Mermaid: Polyphemey from annals of furor

In an age of violent, transactional morality, The Odyssey's most reviled monster longs to escape. Or will his passion for the world's most honored beauty thrust an unexpected greatness upon him?One-eyed ManySongs' mother abandons him on ThreeKnees Island under threat from his father EarthShaker. He wants only to survive Mount Furnace's eruption, slavery and, finally, friendless sheepherding. Wooing with song the sea nymph who denies him permission to drown himself, he learns from her why the deathless gods impose perpetual degradation on the living - and that his hideous strangeness, his voice, his very mortality, and hers, can overthrow his father's oppressive world order and revive The Golden Age.But if he can't help betraying them both to EarthShaker's vengeance, a wounded ManySongs may be forced to sing epics of wrath and treachery - yet hold out for Love and The Good even in the darkest ages and most dismal underworld.