Autobiography Of Red

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson is a queer retelling of the Greek myth of Hercules.

What Ocean Says: “This hybrid book (a novel in verse) taught me what can happen when a fictive story is contextualized through other texts, where it can collaborate, argue with, and celebrate the original while also gaining its own life...”

What They Say: “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” - Times Literary Supplement

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Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese American writer, professor, photographer, and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous