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Intercourse

Stories By Robert Olen Butler

5-1/2 x 7-1/2 in; 216 pp ;
Hardcover
Published in May, 2008
ISBN 0811863573
ISBN13 9780811863575

$22.95  

Intercourse -- A provocative new short-story collection from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, Intercourse delightfully reveals what goes through a person's mind at a crucial moment—during sex. Smart, provocative, subtle, and erotic, each story is a many faceted gem. Butler dazzles and entertains as he channels the most intimate thoughts of 50 couples, including:
Adam & Eve
Bonnie & Clyde
Pocahontas & John Smith
Richard Milhous Nixon & Pat Nixon
Walt Whitman & Oscar Wilde
Elvis Presley & Holly Singleton (admirer)
Princess Diana & Prince Charles
William Jefferson Clinton & Hillary Diane Rodham
Santa Claus & Ingebirgitta (elf)

Robert Olen Butler, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, is the author of many lauded works of fiction. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Quotes

"Butler seals the deal with crystalline prose, a dark imagination and some moments of light camp." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, April 7, 2008

"...titillating and meaty." —New York Magazine