The release date for the English version of 'Autobiography of Red' by
Anne Carson is Aug 1998. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
With Autobiography of Red, the brilliant book that is both a poem and a novel, an unorthodox retelling of an old Greek epic and a whole new coming-of-age tale set in the present, award-winning poet Anne Carson completely reimagines a genre.
In an autobiography he starts at the age of five, Geryon, a little child who is also a winged red monster, exposes the volcanic topography of his frail, troubled psyche. As he gets older, Geryon runs away from his controlling brother and his loving but unhelpful mother. He finds comfort in his photography and in the embraces of a reckless vagabond called Herakles, who abandons him when he is at the height of his passion. Years later, when Herakles resurfaces, Geryon faces the agony of his need once again and sets off on a quest that will fully express his imaginative creativity. Autobiography of Red is a deeply poignant depiction of an artist coming to terms with the bizarre accident of who he is. It is at once humorous and melancholy, scholarly and approachable, intricately detailed and deceptively simple.
"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." -- Book Review of The New York Times
"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday."[From The Village Voice]
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD RECIPIENT
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award