Sarah Henstra's comments have been edited for length and clarity. Like, the teenage Geryon and his mother standing on opposite sides of the kitchen, staring each other down, described in the most beautiful language in four short lines of poetry.' Not ancient Greek mythical emotion, but real life emotion. You can choose any four or five lines out of this book and have this gem-like description of emotion.

It's a page-turner and my students are always amazed and surprised when they encounter this in the book. Autobiography of Red, which perhaps comes closest to representing the range of her voice and gifts, is a spellbinding achievement Susan Sontag Our top books, exclusive content and competitions. 'I love the way this book breaks all the rules of storytelling and manages to be an incredibly moving, exciting read. Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer. Of course, she plays very fast and loose with the plot details and she has Hercules fall in love with Geryon, the monster. This is the myth that Anne Carson has fictionalized or poeticized into this beautiful little book. It's one of the tasks of Hercules to steal the herd of cattle from a red, winged monster named Geryon. But, this book has a beautiful narrative, which is a translation and a poetic interpretation of a Greek myth. It's a book that when you first page through it, it looks scary because it's poetry and it's as long as a novel. I love the way this is a book that students at all levels in an English programme can connect with for different reasons. ' Autobiography of Red is a text that I've taught in a number of English courses at Ryerson University.

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Henstra says that Anne Carson's seminal novel-in-verse Autobiography of Red is a book that she's read through many times. Sarah Henstra won the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction for her novel, The Red Word, a murky and twisted story about sexual assault on a college campus that the jury called 'an utterly effing good read.'

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