{"product_id":"9780375707575","title":"The Beauty of the Husband","description":"\u003cb\u003eFROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis “exquisite meditation on love and loss” (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e) grapples with Keats’s idea that beauty is truth while telling the story of a marriage in twenty-nine “tangos”—which, like a marriage, must be danced to the end.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage . . . [Carson’s] verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice—twenty-nine “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through tender, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only Nobel Prize–winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects—love—and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.","brand":"Anne Carson","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2002-02-19","offer_id":50767976399103,"sku":"9780375707575","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e42ab4d8-27a8-40d7-90a9-98e99280f31d.jpg?v=1792783131","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780375707575","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}