The beauty of the husband: A fictional essay in 29 tangos
Serious and literary fiction, Essays, Anthologies, Poetry, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio
Summary
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 twenty-nine 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.