Title Autobiography of red : a novel in verse / Anne Carson.

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

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Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	811 CAR	DUE 05-24-24
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Edition	First edition.
Description	149 pages ; 23 cm
Contents	Red meat: what difference did Stesichoros make? -- Red meat: fragments of Stesichoros -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Autobiography of red -- Interview.
Summary	A novel in verse on a homosexual romance between two boys. Geryon "understood / that people need / acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts? / He was fourteen. / 'Sex is a way of getting to know someone,' / Herakles had said. He was sixteen." There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles--a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, until that glass house is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by Herakles' return. Running throughout is Geryon's fascination with his wings, the color red, and the fantastic accident of who he is.
Subject	Heracles (Greek mythology) -- Poetry.
	Stesichorus. Gēryonēis -- Adaptations.
	Epic poetry, Greek -- Adaptations.
	Monsters -- Poetry.
Genre/Form	Novels in verse.
Subject	Heracles (Greek mythological character) (OCoLC)fst00955263
	Gēryonēis (Stesichorus) (OCoLC)fst01913971
	Epic poetry, Greek. (OCoLC)fst00913902
	Monsters. (OCoLC)fst01025752
Genre/Form	Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
	Adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01423910
	Novels in verse. (OCoLC)fst01921724
	Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
	Novels in verse.
	Poetry.
	Novels.
ISBN	0375401334
	9780375401336
	9780375701290 (paperback)
	037570129X (paperback)

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