Intercourse
Stories
By Robert Olen Butler
(Chronicle Books, Hardcover, 9780811863575, 216pp.)
Publication Date: July 2008
Categories: Short Stories (single author)
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A provocative new short-story collection from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, Intercourse delightfully reveals what goes through a person's mind at a crucial momentduring sex. Smart, provocative, subtle, and erotic, each story is a many faceted gem. Butler dazzles and entertains as he channels the most intimate thoughts of 50 couples,including:
Adam & Eve
Bonnie & Clyde
Pocahontas & John Smith
Richard Milhous Nixon & Pat Nixon
Walt Whitman & Oscar Wilde
Elvis Presley & Holly Singleton (admirer)
Princess Diana & Prince Charles
William Jefferson Clinton & Hillary Diane Rodham
Santa Claus & Ingebirgitta (elf)
Robert Olen Butler, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, is the author of many lauded works of fiction. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
"Butler seals the deal with crystalline prose, a dark imagination and some moments of light camp." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, April 7, 2008
"...titillating and meaty." —New York Magazine
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