Red Doc> (signed)

Carson, Anne

ISBN 10: 0771018207 / ISBN 13: 9780771018206

Published by McClelland & Stewart / M&S, Toronto, 2013

About this Item

Continues Carson's verse novel, 'Autobiography in Red.' A pristine unread copy of a desirable title from a multi-award-winning Canadian poet, who has signed the book ("ac/2013") on title page. Less common than the Knopf edition. Quarter-bound in black cloth w/silver spine lettering, red cloth, 167 pages (including notes) + a note about the author + a note about the type. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 019761

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Doc> (signed)
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771018207
• ISBN 13: 9780771018206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed (all categories)
  • Plays & Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

A literary event: a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed poetry bestseller 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 haunted 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 housewhere 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.

About the Author

ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. The author lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan; New York.