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Requiem (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Requiem - American Literature Dalkey Archive Author:Curtis White In this tragicomic novel, Curtis White creates an American landscape that is at once familiar and strange, a "pornographic" culture in which the sterility of sex and death signal a more fundamental epidemic: the loss of what it means to be human. Told through a collage that includes letters-to-the-editor, an e-mail correspondence with an interne... more »t porn queen, biographies of classical musicians, NPR interviews, and retellings of Bible stories--REQUIEM is an artistic and intellectual tour de force from one of this country's funniest and most earnest commentators on contemporary culture.« less