TY - BOOK N2 - "A stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present." 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." AB - "A stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present." 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." T1 - Autobiography of red :a novel in verse / DA - 1999. CY - New York : AU - Carson, Anne, ET - 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed., Aug. 1999. CN - PS3553.A7667 CN - PS3553.A7667 PB - Vintage Contemporaries, PP - New York : PY - 1999. ID - 312865 KW - Epic poetry, Greek KW - Monsters SN - 037570129X (pbk.) SN - 9780375701290 (pbk.) TI - Autobiography of red :a novel in verse / ER -