Requiem Contributor(s): White, Curtis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1564783081 ISBN-13: 9781564783080 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2001028785 |
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.00 lbs) 332 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |