{"id":79563,"date":"2024-09-29T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T23:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&p=79563"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:11:27","slug":"wrong-norma-by-anne-carson-signed","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/wrong-norma-by-anne-carson-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (signed, first printing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, WINNER BOOK CRITIC’S CIRCLE AWARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker<\/em> and The Paris Review<\/em>. As Carson writes: \u201cWrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guant\u00e1namo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget\u2019s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve called them \u2018wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

“Reading this astounding, virtuosic book is a sampling of interiority. It is extraordinary because the form partakes of the unjoined nature of human thought. But it needs adding, lest this should confound, that Carson\u2019s trump card is that she is funny.
\n\u2014 Kate Kellaway, The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

“Ultimately, it is the singular sense of originality that makes reading Anne Carson\u2019s books such a pleasure, and Wrong Norma follows that formula\u2014or rather, that lack of formula. Reading it feels like a madcap chase through the backlot of a golden era film studio, each piece with its own period, its own pace, its own marvelous parlor trick. Despite her assertions, nothing here feels wrong\u2014every poem, every essay, every story feels intentional and new and right.”
\n\u2014 Amber Sparks, The Brooklyn Rail<\/em><\/p>\n

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ISBN 9780811230346 size: 7×9
\nPage Count 192
\nSigned by the author on the title page and dated 2024, first printing, first edition.[J1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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