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They Whisper (Hardcover)

by Robert Olen Butler (Author)
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'A profound, disturbing and important book' Washington Post; 'They Whisper, Butler's first novel since his Pulitzer prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, is nothing less than a meditation on the spiritual nature of sexuality - its mystical power and its deep connection to death. In this, it is closer to the spirit of Blake than to that of Joyce, though its style is deliberately Joycean. Like all fundamentalists, Ira allows no other god. His incantations have the thythmic repetition of long prayers... And Ira, while singing out his joy in sexual encounters with the prostitutes of Vietnam, or in his erotic tableaux of actual and imagined lovers, embodies that notion of the ecstatic. Real life slips away when Ira contemplates his goddess, who - whatever her shape, race or age - is always Aphrodite' Washington Post --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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‘Remarkable…the most painfully honest depiction of the male heart since Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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