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Imprint: No Exit Press
Category: Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
What goes through the mind of a person while having sex?
Acclaimed story teller Robert Olen Butler turns his daring imagination to the intimate in his latest collection that both dazzles and probes. He lays bare the most flagrant, personal thoughts and feelings of fifty often surprsing couples. The author’s meitculous research reveals that these famous people actually did get together and, almost certainly (he wasn’t there), consummated their relationship.
Erotic, provocative, political, and funny, each story illuminates the inner workings of these well-known people and also reveals the delights, deviousness, and distractions of intercourse. Butler is at his most entertaining and insightful in this wild and engaging new collection.
RRP: £4.99
ISBN: 9781843447542
Published: May 13, 2015
‘an unabashed, rollicking trip through history told in brilliant paired monologues at moments of supreme intimacy – or not’
Susan Vreeland
‘Intercourse is not finally about sex as much as it is about the mind, and language, and the ability of a wonderful writer to make us believe and feel’
Richard Bausch
‘Butler paints the whole history of the world in a few deft strokes, so to speak’
Roy Blount