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Knopf
March 2013
On Sale: March 5, 2013
192 pages
ISBN: 0307960587
EAN: 9780307960580
Kindle: B00985DYQ0
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Fiction Family Life
A literary event: a follow-up to the internationally
acclaimed poetry best seller Autobiography of Red ("Amazing"
--Alice Munro) that takes its mythic boy-hero into the
twenty-first century to tell a story all its own of love,
loss, and the power of memory.
In a stunningly
original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson
brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now
called "G," into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths
of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend
and lover "Sad" (short for Sad But Great), a war veteran;
and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from
plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a
psychiatric clinic to the somber house where G's mother must
face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hunger
for flight with the longing for family and home, this deeply
powerful verse picaresque invites readers on an
extraordinary journey of intellect, imagination, and soul.
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