"The Beauty of the Husband" is an extraordinary work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects--beauty, desire, love, betrayal--with freshness and devastating power. The author of "Men in the Off Hours" and "Autobiography of Red" tells a single story: a longtime love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 19 "tangos" of narrative verse.
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"The Beauty of the Husband" is an extraordinary work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects--beauty, desire, love, betrayal--with freshness and devastating power. The author of "Men in the Off Hours" and "Autobiography of Red" tells a single story: a longtime love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 19 "tangos" of narrative verse.
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