Anne Carson
4) The Antigone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disaster follows when Creon, King of Thebes, forbids Antigone to bury her brother whom he has declared a traitor
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse on a homosexual romance between two boys. Geryon "understood / that people need / acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts? / He was fourteen. / 'Sex is a way of getting to know someone, ' / Herakles had said. He was sixteen." There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles--a...
7) Red doc>
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A continuation of the author's Autobiography of red (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.