Acclaim for Anne Carson’s

 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED

 

“Wildly imaginative … [a] masterful, quirky prose poem … unsettling and strangely moving.”

—The San Diego Union-Tribune

 

“Memorably passionate … bravely original … whimsical and delightedly peculiar.”

—Boston Phoenix

 

“A modern reimagining of an ancient myth … full of small, deftly wrought delights.”

—Los Angeles Times

 

“Carson’s prayerful electricity is charged by the lustration of writing.… A brilliant book.”

—The Nation

 

“Oddly affecting and technically brilliant … one of the most interesting novels of the year.… It is generous, sweet and absolutely sui generis.”

—Time Out

 

“A spellbinding achievement … Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer.”

—Susan Sontag

 

“Anne Carson is an inspiration to us all. She is that rarest of entities, a writer as fearless as she is gifted, and Autobiography of Red is that rarest of books, one that satisfies emotionally, aesthetically, and intellectually.”

—Michael Cunningham