Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
$22.43
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2019
Summary
Beauty and Destruction: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—iconic beauties who lived millennia apart.
A thrilling and thoughtful meditation on the destabilising and destructive power of beauty.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786827616 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786827611 |
| Series: | Oberon Modern Plays |
| Author: | Anne Carson |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Oberon Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 124mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Anne Carson
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
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