num_pages: 160
description: 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–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 Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.
language: English
title: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
titlecomplete: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
genres: Fiction, Poetry, Canadian Literature, Canada, Female Authors, Literature, Essays, Classics, Romance, Contemporary
ratings_count: 6156
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Poetry
publisher: Knopf