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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Contributor(s): Carson, Anne (Author)
ISBN: 0375707573     ISBN-13: 9780375707575
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2002
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | Canadian
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 00062002
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.18" W x 8.02" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages
 
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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.