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| Genre/Form: | Experimental fiction Erotic fiction Fiction |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Chester, Alfred, 1928-1971. Exquisite corpse. Boston : David R. Godine Publisher, 2003 (OCoLC)607011288 Online version: Chester, Alfred, 1928-1971. Exquisite corpse. Boston : David R. Godine Publisher, 2003 (OCoLC)607834739 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alfred Chester |
| ISBN: | 1574231979 9781574231977 |
| OCLC Number: | 52846359 |
| Notes: | "A black sparrow book." Originally published: Simon & Schuster, 1967. |
| Description: | 263 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Responsibility: | by Alfred Chester ; afterword by Diana Athill. |
Abstract:
Lyric and tender one moment, cruel and dizzying the next, this cult classic 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 49 brief, highly cinematic chapters, we meet a series of twisted but sincere searchers--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.--From publisher description.
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