The beauty of the husband a fictional essay in 29 tangos
The love affair, marriage, and disintigrating relationship between two unnamed people is revealed through the voice of a woman in twenty-nine interrelated "tangos" of narrative verse that explore such themes as desire, beauty, love, and betrayal.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Knopf,
[2001]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The love affair, marriage, and disintigrating relationship between two unnamed people is revealed through the voice of a woman in twenty-nine interrelated "tangos" of narrative verse that explore such themes as desire, beauty, love, and betrayal. |
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| Physical Description: | 147 pages ; 23 cm |
| Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, 2001 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 147). |
| ISBN: | 0375408045 9780375408045 0224061305 9780224061308 0375707573 9780375707575 |
| Author Notes: | Carson is perhaps besst know for Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, which won the 1998 QSPELL Prize for Poetry. Carson recently won the 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize for Men in the Off Hours. Carson also won the T.S. Eliot poetry prize for The Beauty of the Husband, the first woman to win the award in its nine-year history. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and received a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. Carson is the author of seven books. (Bowker Author Biography) |
