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The Beauty of the Husband
A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
by Anne Carson
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This book-length lyric essay by MacArthur Grant-recipient Anne Carson, written in 29 small chapters which the poet calls "Tangos," emotionally chronicles the history of a marriage gone bad. Carson's fragmentary style is joined by excerpts from love letters and classical texts. A 2001 New York Times Notable Book.
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9780375408045,
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Random House Inc,
2001
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9780375707575,
Paperback,
Vintage Books,
2002
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Publisher Notes
The love affair, marriage, and disintegrating relationship between two unnamed people is revealed throught the voice of the woman in twenty-nine interrelated "tangos" of narrative verse that explores such themes as desire, beauty, love, and betrayal. By the author of Men in the Off Hours.
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"[B]oth entirely new and strangely familiar, like remembering a private language we thought we'd forgotten."
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