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Dalkey Archive Press Requiem by Curtis White
Requiem Is A Darkly Comic Novel About What It Means To Be Human In A Culture Obsessed With Sex And Death. With A Structure Loosely Based On The Mass For The Dead, This Ambitious Novel Includes Letters-To-The-Editor, An E-Mail Correspondence With A Porn Queen, Scenes From The Lives Of Classical Musicians, And Retellings Of Biblical Stories. In The Process, White Charts The Rise And Fall Of The Human From The Bible (Pre-Human), To The Enlightenment (The Invention Of The Human), To The Digital Age (Post-Human). In An America Where Everyone Keeps A Secret Website, And Where A Modern Prophet Can Only Weep At The Stories He Hears, Requiem Reveals Our Past, Present And Future With Wit, Sadness, And Complete Honesty.