Requiem by Curtis White
Requiem is a darkly comic novel about what it means to be human in a culture obsessed with sex and death. With a structure loosely based on the Mass for the Dead, this ambitious novel includes letters-to-the-editor, an e-mail correspondence with a porn queen, scenes from the lives of classical musicians, and retellings of biblical stories. In the process, White charts the rise and fall of the Human from the Bible (pre-human), to the Enlightenment (the invention of the human), to the digital age (post-human). In an America where everyone keeps a secret website, and where a modern Prophet can only weep at the stories he hears, Requiem reveals our past, present and future with wit, sadness, and complete honesty.
"a loopy postmodern "novel" of epic reach and encyclopedic method"--Library Journal
Curtis White is the author of the novels Memories of My Father Watching TV and Requiem. A widely acclaimed essayist, his work appears regularly in Context and Harper's. He is an English professor at Illinois State University and the current president of the Center for Book Culture/Dalkey Archive Press
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| ISBN 13 | 9781564783080 |
| ISBN 10 | 1564783081 |
| Titel | Requiem |
| Autor | Curtis White |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2001-11-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 332 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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