I. Works by Anne Carson > A. Books > I.A.1998.001
Carson, Anne
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
ISBN: 978-0-375-40133-6
Notes from Source: 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.
Further Notes: 23 cm; 1999 and 2016 editions are available at the Internet Archive. 2016 edition: https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofr0000cars
Further Notes:
Other Editions:
Carson, Anne. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse. London: Cape Poetry, 1999.
Carson, Anne. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse. First Vintage Contemporaries edition. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1999.
Carson, Anne. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse. Cape Poetry. London: Jonathan Cape, 2010.
Carson, Anne. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse. McClelland & Stewart edition. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2016.
See also Carson, Anne. ‘The Autobiography of Red’. Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, no. 22 (Winter 1994): 30–43.
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