Polite Sex by James Wilcox
A brilliantly observed, hilarious and poignant social satire. Wilcoxs novels (there are six and characters overlap) have the narrative litheness of Armistead Maupin and the piercing tragi-comic insights of Edith Wharton.Praise for James Wilcox:
`Like Anne Tyler, Wilcox writes with a compassion best expressed in the willingness to laugh at his characters’ foibles’
New York Newsday
`Mr Wilcox has real comic genius.’
Ann Tyler
`Wilcox conveys the paradoxical sense that human life may be random and absurd but that to capture that absurdity exactly in just the right words is to conquer it.’
Mirabella
James Wilcox’s stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Avenue and Louisiana Literature. He is the author of five other novels, Modern Baptists, North Gladiola, Miss Undine’s Living Room, Sort of Rich and Guest of a Sinner. He is a graduate of Yale University and a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857024296 |
| ISBN 10 | 185702429X |
| Title | Polite Sex |
| Author | James Wilcox |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1996-03-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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