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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anne Carson is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<i>The Beauty Of The Husband </i>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.<br><br>This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29 “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 Ann
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Anne Carson
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375707575
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Erotica, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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