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Weight 

The Myth of Atlas And Heracles 

 (Myths)

by

Jeanette Winterson

Weight: The Myth of Atlas And Heracles

(A book in the Myths series)
(2005)
A novel by

Jeanette Winterson

 

"When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended. If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting to be written. Rewritten. The recurring language motif of Weight is 'I want to tell the story again.' My work is full of cover versions. I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently. In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text. Weight moves far away from the simple story of Atlas's punishment and his temporary relief when Heracles takes the world off his shoulders. I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom, too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere." -- from Jeanette Winterson's Foreword to Weight
 
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Hardback Editions

May 2006 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0753176300Title: Weight
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 0-7531-7630-0 / 978-0-7531-7630-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: ISIS Publishing
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November 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1841957186Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Myths)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-84195-718-6 / 9781841957180 (UK edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books
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October 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1841956716Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Myths)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-84195-671-6 / 9781841956718 (UK edition)
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Paperback Editions

January 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0753176319Title: Weight (Isis General Fiction)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 0-7531-7631-9 / 978-0-7531-7631-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: ISIS Publishing
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November 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1841957992Title: Weight (Myths)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-84195-799-2 / 9781841957999 (UK edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books
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August 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0676974236Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 0-676-97423-6 / 978-0-676-97423-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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July 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1841958131Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-84195-813-1 / 9781841958132 (UK edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books
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July 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1841957755Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Myths)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-84195-775-5 / 9781841957753 (UK edition)
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December 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0144000946Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 0-14-400094-6 / 978-0-14-400094-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Books
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October 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1841957240Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-84195-724-0 / 9781841957241 (UK edition)
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
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September 2006 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1423321103Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-2110-3 / 978-1-4233-2110-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
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September 2006 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1423321111Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-2111-1 / 978-1-4233-2111-8 (USA edition)
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April 2006 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1423317629Title: Weight
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-1762-9 / 978-1-4233-1762-3 (USA edition)
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October 2005 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1423307836Title: Weight (Cass) (Unabr.)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-0783-6 / 978-1-4233-0783-9 (USA edition)
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October 2005 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1423307844Title: Weight (Cass)Libr. (Unabr.)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-0784-4 / 978-1-4233-0784-6 (USA edition)
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October 2005 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1423307852Title: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles [UNABRIDGED]
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-0785-2 / 978-1-4233-0785-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
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October 2005 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1423307860Title: Weight (Cd) (Libr.) (Unabr.)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-0786-0 / 978-1-4233-0786-0 (USA edition)
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October 2005 : MP3 CD
Cover of ISBN: 1423307879Title: Weight (Mp3)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-0787-9 / 978-1-4233-0787-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
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October 2005 : MP3 CD
Cover of ISBN: 1423307887Title: Weight (Mp3) (Libr.)
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 1-4233-0788-7 / 978-1-4233-0788-4 (USA edition)
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