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The Beauty of the Husband : A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
by Anne Carson
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Overview
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE - 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.Customers Also Bought
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- ISBN-13: 9780676974751
- ISBN-10: 0676974759
- Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
- Publish Date: February 2002
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.35 pounds
- Page Count: 160
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