Requiem by Curtis White

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
Title	Requiem
Author	Curtis White
Series	American Literature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dalkey Archive Press
Year published	2001-11-15
Number of pages	332
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