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The beauty of the husband : a fictional essay in 29 tangos / Anne Carson.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.A7667 B43 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carson, Anne, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Married people--Poetry.
- Married people.
- Marriage--Poetry.
- Marriage.
- Adultery--Poetry.
- Adultery.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 2001.
- Summary:
- "The Beauty of the Husband" is an extraordinary work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects--beauty, desire, love, betrayal--with freshness and devastating power. The author of "Men in the Off Hours" and "Autobiography of Red" tells a single story: a longtime love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 19 "tangos" of narrative verse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0375408045
- OCLC:
- 44769104
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