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I hardly know what to say about this one; such an unexpected tome, still-being-digested, &co. Ostensibly a re-telling of the tale of Geryon, the red-winged monster killed by Herakles as part of the twelve labors (the tenth being to obtain Geryon's cattle). But don't go into this thinking it's going to be some hippy-dippy revisionary project, because though Herakles and Geryon and Helen make their appearances, this is anything but your conventional mythological reimagining. What it is: a tale of
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There are no words to capture fully how amazing this book is, nor are there enough superlatives in the world to convey the depth of my love for it.
If there's anything Anne Carson is incapable of, it's writing horribly.
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