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

Publisher: Vintage

Contributors:

Anne Carson (Author)

Contributors: Anne Carson (Author)

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BISAC categories: Poetry -> American -> General

BISAC categories: Poetry -> Canadian

BISAC categories: Poetry -> Subjects & Themes -> Love & Erotica

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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.
ISBN-10: 0375707573
ISBN-13: 9780375707575
Author: Carson, Anne, N/A, N/A
Publisher: Vintage

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ISBN-13: 9780375707575

ISBN-10: 0375707573

Publisher: Vintage

Publish Date: February 19, 2002

On Sale Date: January 1, 0001

Language: English

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 8.02 × 5.18 × 0.55 in

Weight: 0.4 lbs

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