Exquisite Corpse

Alfred Chester

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ISBN 10: 0233960066 ISBN 13: 9780233960067

Published by Andre Deutsch, 1970

Language: English

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1970 Andre Deutsch Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression . Near fine clean tight copy in very good+ unclipped dustjacket.

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Title

Exquisite Corpse

Publisher

Andre Deutsch

Publication Date

1970

Language

English

ISBN 10

0233960066

ISBN 13

9780233960067

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Lyric and tender one moment, cruel and dizzying the next, The Exquisite Corpse neither celebrates perversity nor laments it; rather it projects it as part of man's never-ending search for a true self and for transcendent communion with others.In forty-nine brief, highly cinematic chapters, we meet a series of twisted but sincere searches Tomtom Jim and his naked, hungry family; Mary Poorpoor and her utterly "otherly" baby; angry John Doe and his sex slave, James Madison each in flight from despair. As one surreal episode morphs into the next, these searchers change shape and their journeys change direction; names and identities come and go, storylines collide, and desires intertwine, all with the lightning-quick illogic of a dream. The result is a tragicomic tour de force, an upside-down roadmap to everyone's inner Sodom, a perversely moral (and morally perverse) masterpiece by a modern-day Marquis de Sade.

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Alfred Chester was, in the words of Gore Vidal, "a glorious writer, tough as nails." His other books include The Exquisite Corpse (Black Sparrow Books, 2004), Head of a Sad Angel (stories, 1990), and Looking for Genet (essays, 1992). Born in Brooklyn in 1928, he died in Tel Aviv in 1971.

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