Intercourse: Stories

by Robert Olen Butler

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A collection of short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers a revealing look at what goes through a person's mind during sex as he captures the innermost thoughts of such couples as Bonnie and Clyde, Adam and Eve, and Richard Milhous Nixon and Pat Nixon.

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not risque or erotic...goes through a series of couples, what they may have been thinking during the act at a particular time. a little difficult to read since written as stream-of-consciousness, because who thinks with perfect grammar and punctuation. i missed many of the sly winks since i'm not up to date with all writers, politicians, entertainers & their personal lives. goes from snort-worthy ridiculous to touchingly beautiful.
Two page vignettes of what famous couples in history might think during sex. Some are funny. Most are not thinking of their partners. I found this a different way to think about sex. I enjoyed the stories about the Clintons, Nixons, Bushes, Cleo & Antony, and Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. It's a fun read.
Short Stories. As much as I love short stories, this one was written in an annoying style. The stories were written as first person thoughts, clipped from a snapshot of supposed sexual encounters of historical people.The long, single sentence narrative of each person was difficult for me to read and I may have to re-read the book to understand it better.
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Robert Olen Butler is a novelist, screenwriter, educator, and short-story writer who grew up in Granite City, Illinois. Butler served in Vietnam. Following the Vietnam War, Butler began writing. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Paris Review, and The Saturday Review, as well as in four annual editions of the Best American show more Short Stories and six annual editions of New Stories of the South. A collection of his stories, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Butler's novels include The Alleys of Eden, Countrymen of Bones, and Sun Dogs. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Butler also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches creative writing at McNeese State University. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Original publication date
2008

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3552 .U8278 .I58Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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Languages
English
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Paper, Ebook
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2
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