The Exquisite Corpse
by Alfred Chester
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Description
Lyric and tender one moment, cruel and dizzying the next, this literary tour de force neither celebrates perversity nor laments it, rather it projects it as part of man's impossible quest for a true self. In 49 brief, highly cinematic chapters, we meet a series of twisted but sincere searchers, each in their own flight from despair.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1967
- First words
- On his way across the attic, John Anthony passed the bassinet and in a bit of lookinglass that showed among the rags he saw the stranger's face.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, LGBTQ+
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .C5248 .E — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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Statistics
- Members
- 69
- Popularity
- 453,439
- Rating
- (3.70)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 2
