New York : Vintage , 1999 Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Edition. The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.149p.

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Autobiography of Red (1998) is a verse novel by Anne Carson, based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis. Autobiography of Red is the story of a red winged monster living in the modern day. Sexually abused by his older brother, his affectionate mother too weak-willed to protect him, the monstrous young boy finds solace in photography and in a romance with a young man named Herakles.

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Bookseller: KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 044084
Title: Autobiography of Red : A Novel in Verse
Author: Carson, Anne
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good +
Edition: 1st Pbk Edition
ISBN 10: 037570129X
ISBN 13: 9780375701290
Publisher: Vintage
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: GREEK MYTHOLOGY FICTION CANADIAN WRITERS POETRY GREEK INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry; Greek Influence on Literature;

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