The Beauty of the Husband

A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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The Beauty of the Husband

A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

1st ed.
  • 7 Want to read
  • 2 Have read

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.From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
Pages
147

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The Beauty of the Husband
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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The Beauty of the Husband
Feb 19, 2002, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
February 19, 2002, Vintage
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The beauty of the husband
2001, Cape Poetry
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Cover of: The Beauty of the Husband
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
2001, Knopf
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Published in
New York
Genre
Poetry.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.A7667 B43 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
147 p. ;
Number of pages
147

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6794056M
ISBN 10
0375408045
LCCN
00062002
OCLC/WorldCat
44769104
Library Thing
195194
Goodreads
816281

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