Autobiography of Red
$23.12
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
Published as a classic for the first time, this is Anne Carson’s modern epic poem, an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is a queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic.
Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls deeply in love with Herak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784879029 |
| Author: | Anne Carson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 116g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today. Autobiography of Red is a wonderful, mongrel work, a strange and ambitious bridge between classical texts and contemporary autobiographical poetryHer work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. The poems play with character and plot, myth and magic; they are rich with attitude and wit and the undertow of grief. If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius * Times Literary Supplement *Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer. Autobiography of Red, which perhaps comes closest to representing the range of her voice and gifts, is a spellbinding achievementI’m a big fan of her work… There’s a joy in encountering a mind that takes nothing for granted… She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism
About The Author
Anne Carson
Anne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the T. S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Prize, on two occasions, fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2020.
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