The Beauty of the Husband

A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

Written by Anne Carson

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Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2001
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40804-5 (0-375-40804-5)

The Beauty of the Husband
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375408045
Our Price: $24.00

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

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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