The Beauty Of The Husband: A Fictional Essay In 29 Tangos

Description for THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND: A FICTIONAL ESSAY IN 29 TANGOS by Anne Carson:

"The Beauty of the Husband" is an extraordinary work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects--beauty, desire, love, betrayal--with freshness and devastating power. The author of "Men in the Off Hours" and "Autobiography of Red" tells a single story: a longtime love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 19 "tangos" of narrative verse.