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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Reader Score
84%
84% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
Based on 4 reviews on
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Feb 19th, 2002
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.18in - 0.55in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780375707575
- Categories: • American - General• Canadian• Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica
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What people are saying
Angela Chen is a journalist and author.
This morning’s subway reading, from Anne Carson’s gorgeous _The Beauty of the Husband_: https://t.co/6Jzeq2ziwj
Author of JAMESTOWN, THE SLEEPING FATHER, other novels. Independent editor and writing coach. Former prof at Wesleyan, Columbia, Bard, Pratt, elsewhere.
@amy_stuber_ Beckett's Molloy. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Two by Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband. Ishmael Reed's Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down....
Got a dictionary and some sharpened pencils and other things like that.
15th book of the year is The Beauty of the Husband (2001) by Anne Carson. Sitting here trying to think of things that are sharper than scalpels. Whatever that might be is what she used to autopsy her past marriage. https://t.co/fVmdBfgV4t
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage.... Her verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light."-The New York Times
"Her best book.... Her poetry's form and sensibility are quite unlike anything else."-The Globe & Mail (Toronto)
What people are saying
Angela Chen is a journalist and author.
This morning’s subway reading, from Anne Carson’s gorgeous _The Beauty of the Husband_: https://t.co/6Jzeq2ziwj
Author of JAMESTOWN, THE SLEEPING FATHER, other novels. Independent editor and writing coach. Former prof at Wesleyan, Columbia, Bard, Pratt, elsewhere.
@amy_stuber_ Beckett's Molloy. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Two by Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband. Ishmael Reed's Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down....