Wrong Norma

By Anne Carson Every book by Anne Carson is an unpredictable adventure for hearts & minds. A wild ride, as they say. Her new work of twenty-five delightfully “genre-twisting,” “nearly unstrung” prose pieces is no different. Carson has a wonderfully precise yet lurching, forensic yet funny way with words and worlds. Her “strategic sentences” and sentiments weave and swerve into and out of blocks of text, reappear and disappear like smells or hallucinations. Her language meditates and deconstructs, shuffles and collages unburied facts, familial fragments, and hidden thoughts into part screwball, part slapstick comedy routines and “glorious off-key tragic songs” that “squirt sideways, mute and mad.” Beautiful paperback production with exquisite textural sketches. — Herbert Pföstl, Book Consultant for the New Museum Store. “Wrong night, wrong city, wrong movie, wrong ambulances caterwauling past and drowning out wrong dialogue of wrong Norma Desmond, what could be more wrong she’s the