a_novel_femme 's review for:

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

5.0

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beautifully dense, beautifully headache-inducing, beautifully poignant and rewarding in its method. the story itself is not difficult -- geryon has young man who is discovering his sexuality and love in the midst of abuse and neglect -- but the way it is presented, as a kind of long prose-poem that wanders through short chapters that feel more like vignettes, is what makes this quite a pleasurable mindfuck of a literary read.