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Author:	Anne Carson	Format:	--
Publisher:	Vintage Books	ISBN-10:	037570129X
ISBN-13:	9780375701290	Educational Level:	--
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Condition:	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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Height:	8.3 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	6.4 oz.

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From an award-winning poet comes a novel in verse that re-imagines an ancient Greek epic as a modern coming-of-age story. A young boy, who is also a winged red monster, reveals his tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at age five.
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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

Anne Carson

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	037570129X
Publication Date:	1998-08-01
Publisher:	Vintage

Pages:	160
Height:	0.5000 inches
Width:	5.1000 inches
Weight:	0.4000 pounds

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