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Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, UK, 2000
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- Men In The Off Hours; 1st/1st
- Author
- Carson, Anne
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, UK
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0224061046
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061049
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 206 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.3 centimeters width by 21.3 centimeters height by 1 centimeter depth
- Series
- Book 1 of 248: Vintage Contemporaries
Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ('a spellbinding achievement' - Susan Sontag): a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's intoxicating mixture of opposites - the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.
In Men in the Off Hours, Carson re-invents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St Augustine and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And, in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother.
With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that 'the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection', Men in the Off Hours is profound, provocative and unforgettable.
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