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The Beauty of the Husband

A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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The Beauty of the Husband

By: Anne Carson
Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
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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–twenty-nine "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.

©2001 Anne Carson (P)2001 Tantor Media

Accolades & Awards

Los Angeles Times Book Prize
2001
Family Los Angeles Times Book Prize Love Poetry Themes & Styles United States World Literature Marriage

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