The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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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.
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.
PUBLISHER:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10:
0375707573
ISBN-13:
9780375707575
BINDING:
Paperback
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2002
NUMBER OF PAGES:
160
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
0.4(H) x 5.2(W) x 7.98(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English