- Published: 15 August 1999
- ISBN: 9780224059732
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 160
- RRP: $45.00
Autobiography Of Red











- Published: 15 August 1999
- ISBN: 9780224059732
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 160
- RRP: $45.00
Like all of Anne Carson's writing, this book is amazing - I haven't discovered any writing in years that's so marvellously disturbing. I just feel so happy that she's around
Alice Munro
Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. The poems play with character and plot, myth and magic; they are rich with attitude and wit and the undertow of grief. If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius
Colm Tóibín, Times Literary Supplement
Anne Carson has created, from fragments of the Greek poet Stesichoros, a profound love story...forty-seven compulsively readable long-lined poems of intense cinematic detail. Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted
Ruth Padel, New York Times Book Review
Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer. Autobiography of Red, which perhaps comes closest to representing the range of her voice and gifts, is a spellbinding achievement
Susan Sontag