Intercourse: Stories
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 momentduring sex. Smart, provocative, subtle, and erotic, each story is a many faceted gem. Butler dazzles and entertains as he...
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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 momentduring 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 & EveBonnie & ClydePocahontas & John SmithRichard Milhous Nixon & Pat NixonWalt Whitman & Oscar WildeElvis Presley & Holly Singleton (admirer)Princess Diana & Prince CharlesWilliam Jefferson Clinton & Hillary Diane RodhamSanta Claus & Ingebirgitta (elf)
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780811863575 (0811863573)
Publish date: May 28th 2008
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
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. ...
Not as good as Severance, but amusing and at times, sad. Still worth the read.