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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos Paperback - 2002
by Carson, Anne
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A tango (like a marriage) is something dancers 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 readers vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart.
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- Title The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
- Author Carson, Anne
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-02-19
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0375707573_new
- ISBN 9780375707575 / 0375707573
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.18 x 0.55 in (20.37 x 13.16 x 1.40 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Holiday: Valentine's Day
- Library of Congress subjects Married people, Marriage
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00062002
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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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.
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- New York Times, 02/10/2002, Page 24