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Wrong Norma
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Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years. 'I would read anything she wrote'Susan Sontag 'If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a...
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Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years.
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years.
'I would read anything she wrote'
Susan Sontag
'If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius'
Colm Tóibín
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, annotated and corrected by the author.
Anne Carson is probably our most celebrated living poet, winner of countless awards and routinely tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Famously reticent, asking that her books be published without cover copy, she has agreed to say this:
Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night, Sokrates, writing sonnets, forensics, encounters with lovers, the word "idea", the feet of Jesus, and Russian thugs. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them "wrong".
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781787332355
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 February 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 582g
Pages: 192
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About the Author
Anne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the T. S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Prize, on two occasions, fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2020.
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