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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries
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ISBN10: 0375707573
ISBN13: 9780375707575
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Feb 19 2002
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375707575
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Feb 19 2002
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
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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