The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

by Carson, Anne
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ISBN: 9780375707575
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The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.

This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice-29 "tangos" of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects-love-and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Carson, Anne
  • ISBN: 9780375707575
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.02 x 0.55
  • Number Of Pages: 160
  • Publication Year: 2002
Language: English

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