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Author: Anne CarsonFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf IncEdition: 1
ISBN-10: 0375401334ISBN-13: 9780375401336
Subject: Folklore, MythologyPublication Year: 1998
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Language: EnglishCondition: Good
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This novel in verse by poet Anne Carson is based on the ancient Greek legend of a winged monster named Geryon. Here, he discovers photography and becomes fascinated with it, and with a young man named Herakles. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

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Length:149 pages
Height:9.3 in.
Width:6.5 in.
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Weight:13.6 oz.

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Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles - a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, until that glass house is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by Herakles' return. Running throughout is Geryon's fascination with his wings, the color red, and the fantastic accident of who he is.
In her first novel in verse, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryons story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles--a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, until that glass house is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by Herakles return. Running throughout is Geryons fascination with his wings, the color red, and the fantastic accident of who he is. Autobiography of Red is a deceptively simple narrative layered with currents of meaning, emotion, and the truth about what it's like to be red. It is a powerful and unsettling story that moves, disturbs, and delights.

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"Anne Carson is a philosopher of heartbreak....[S]he has written a brilliant book about desire, the ancient Greek poet Stesichoros, volcanoes, and the joyful brutalities of seeing and blindness."
Nation - Bruce Hainley (06/01/1998)

"AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED is a compelling tale grippingly told, and is unusual among 'verse novels' in realizing both parts of its hybrid nature equally well."
London Review of Books - Elizabeth Lowry (10/05/2000)

"The Canadian writer Anne Carson is among the most interesting of contemporary English-language poets. For the most part, the present-day poem either thinks or feels...but Carson's rare, inclusive imagination can embody both thought and feeling in ways that move as well as divert the reader. If AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED...seems a failure, it is still more engrossing than the tame successes of those poets who are all heart or all brain."
Times Literary Supplement - Oliver Reynolds (12/03/1999)

"This darkly layered original work deserves readers willing to put up with a good deal of flimflam for the pleasures of a poetry oddly conceived....Carson has found the means of her story in the blank matter of existence--any number of scraps must have come directly form her life...but the classical frame allows her a distance wholly refreshing. Though the poem must be judged a failed narrative, any reader will be grateful for such failures at a time when poetry risks so little. This is a child novel born in the INFERNO."
New Criterion - William Logan (06/01/1999)


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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0375401334
Title : Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
EAN : 9780375401336
Authors : Anne Carson
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Knopf
Publication Date : 1998-03-31
Pages : 149
List Price (MSRP) : 24.00
Height : 0.9000 inches
Width : 6.5000 inches
Length : 8.8000 inches
Weight : 0.6000 pounds
Keywords : Carson, Anne, Epic, United States, General, General AAS, Greek & Roman, 20th Century, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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