ENGLISH

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

By Anne Carson

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2002
ISBN
0375707573, 9780375707575
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1780485 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
160\0
Time added
2014-08-18 07:17:30

Description

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.

Similar books