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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By Anne Carson
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By Anne Carson
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FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
This “exquisite meditation on love and loss” (Elle) grapples with Keats’s idea that beauty is truth while telling the story of a marriage in twenty-nine “tangos”—which, like a marriage, must be danced to the end.
“[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage . . . [Carson’s] verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light.”—The New York Times
This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single stor...
This “exquisite meditation on love and loss” (Elle) grapples with Keats’s idea that beauty is truth while telling the story of a marriage in twenty-nine “tangos”—which, like a marriage, must be danced to the end.
“[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage . . . [Carson’s] verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light.”—The New York Times
This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single stor...
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